initTemplate
Creates and initializes child widgets defined in templates.
This function must be called in the instance initializer for any class which assigned itself a template using method@Gtk.WidgetClass.set_template.
It is important to call this function in the instance initializer of a GtkWidget
subclass and not in GObject.constructed()
or GObject.constructor()
for two reasons:
derived widgets will assume that the composite widgets defined by its parent classes have been created in their relative instance initializers
when calling
g_object_new()
on a widget with composite templates, it’s important to build the composite widgets before the construct properties are set. Properties passed tog_object_new()
should take precedence over properties set in the private template XML
A good rule of thumb is to call this function as the first thing in an instance initialization function.