On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:56:57AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I am not sure about that. It seems to me that the types eventually > resolve to unsigned int: > http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1TreeModel.html > http://www.gtkmm.org/gtkmm2/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1TreeNodeChildren.html > > This kind of make sense for GUI elements. Who need 64bit ints there? > > So if we have to use an abstract type, I'd use > Gtk::ListStore::Children::size_type, which is admittedly a bit wordy.
Indeed. So doesn't Gtk has some 'general size type' with a shorter name. Of course, if they really and everywhere resolve to 'unsigned int', using just this is fine. After all, we are using std::size_t and not std::vector<Foo>::size_type because they have to be the same. Andre'
