gobject: Cross-link from GType reference docs to GType conventions page

Make it a little easier to find the GType conventions page, which I
guess should be the canonical guide to how to name things.

This adds a brief mention of the valid characters in a type name to the
conventions page.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743018
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Philip Withnall
2015-01-16 09:43:16 +00:00
parent 10f96a914d
commit 9874fe3c40
2 changed files with 8 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -232,6 +232,10 @@ struct _GTypeValueTable
There are a number of conventions users are expected to follow when creating new types
which are to be exported in a header file:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Type names (including object names) must be at least three
characters long and start with az, AZ or _.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
Use the <function>object_method</function> pattern for function names: to invoke
the method named foo on an instance of object type bar, call