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Submitted by Dan Yeaw

Link to original bug (#784991)

Description

Bug 338098 added support for defining object properties using GObject.Property. In pygtk I was creating child properties using a dictionary, for example:

__gchild_properties__ = {
    'weight': (GObject.TYPE_FLOAT,
               'item weight',
               'item weight',
               0,  # min
               1,  # max
               .2,  # default
               GObject.ParamFlags.READWRITE
              ),
}

and then:

for index, (name, pspec) in enumerate(six.iteritems(DockPaned.__gchild_properties__)):
    pspec = list(pspec)
    pspec.insert(0, name)
    Gtk.ContainerClass.install_child_property(DockPaned, index + 1, tuple(pspec))

Unfortunately with PyGObject this gives a TypeError: argument pspec: Expected GObject.ParamSpec, but got tuple

There needs to be a way to create child properties through install_child_property. What if we defined these properties using a new GObject.ChildProperty solution similar to what was added for other normal properties?