Hi, I'm new here ;) . As I really like Inkscape I thought I'd help out programming. In order to gain some insight I started with a janitorial task, I put the virtual function calls in the SPObject tree into C++ classes. I found the procedure of porting the tree to C++ described in the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CPlusPlus This works quite well. In the attached patch you can find those "virtual pads". At the moment I'm turning all the other functions into real member functions and I'm playing around with a new factory that is independent of glib. Tell me what you think about it.

Markus