One distinct problem for ports of GTK+ to other windowing systems has
been dealing with modal operations in the windowing systems API; this
comes up for:
- Window resizing
- Drag and drop
- Modal print dialogs
And so forth. While the modal operation is going on, the GTK+ main loop
is not runni
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As I've told Johan, this won't be possible for significant amounts of
> the API, because human thought really is required to make truly usable
> APIs. And I worry that the auto-generation will create bad API that will
>
Murray Cumming wrote:
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 16:33 +0200, Johan Dahlin wrote:
[..]
As I've told Johan, this won't be possible for significant amounts of
the API, because human thought really is required to make truly usable
APIs. And I worry that the auto-generation will create bad API that will
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 16:33 +0200, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> There were a couple of reasons to switching to xml over s-expressions.
> The primary one is that XML is more popular, most modern languages
> have parsers builtin which will make it easier to write tools upon it.
> Other reasons includes that
Michael Lawrence wrote:
[..]
The VAPI format from the Vala project is a nice human-writeable format
that should soon be convertable to GIR (currently can be converted to GIDL).
Example:
public class Gtk.Label : Gtk.Misc {
public void get(out text);
...
}
Using an IDL such as VAPI has been
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
>
>> 2008/6/2 Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>> An alternative here is make a clean break, eg only use this in new
>>> language bindings and make the typelib/GIR define the API.
>>>
>>> For Pyth
BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
2008/6/2 Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
An alternative here is make a clean break, eg only use this in new
language bindings and make the typelib/GIR define the API.
For Python I plan to;
* Convert PyGTK .defs to .xml, still keep them locally
* Find out the changes bet
2008/6/2 Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> An alternative here is make a clean break, eg only use this in new
> language bindings and make the typelib/GIR define the API.
>
> For Python I plan to;
> * Convert PyGTK .defs to .xml, still keep them locally
> * Find out the changes between the .gir i
I'm proud to announce the initial release of GObject-Introspection.
Colin Walters and I have been hacking madly on it for the past couple of
weeks and we have finally reached a point to where we're ready for more
more users.
Tarball can be found at:
http://download.gnome.org/sources/gobject-
