Re: GtkMediaPlayer widget

[Ryan Gammon <rgammon real com>]

iain wrote:

> (For fear of getting another million of these messages...how many lists
> are they being sent to?)
>  

Guess I should send to desktop-devel-list gnome org only next time...

> Ah, finally I see what you want.
> All you actually want is an GInterface
>
> so we can do
> mediaplayer = gst_player_new ("file.mpg");
> gtk_media_player_play (GTK_MEDIA_PLAYER (mediaplayer);
>
> mediaplayer = helix_player_new ("file.mpg");
> gtk_media_player_play (GTK_MEDIA_PLAYER (mediaplayer);
>  

Dead on!

> not entirely sure that would be overly useful, cos at some point
> there's going to be a need to treat each implementation as its own
> specific implementation, which the abstraction of a GtkMediaInterface
> wouldn't be able to do.
>  

That's the flip side of being an interface instead of a wrapper -- 
there's no real abstraction going on here, so you do have to deal with 
the underlying widget.

At the very least, you'd have to call helix_player_new (unless you were 
doing something clever with dlopen).

The technical value here is useful but modest. The exciting part is that 
it gives gtk developers a jumping off point for their media widget 
needs, and it demonstrates that media widgets are first class widgets in 
gtk.

> But it wouldn't be a fundamental widget or anything like that.
>  

Lost me here. Why wouldn't it derive from GtkWidget?

--
Ryan Gammon
rgammon real com
Developer for Helix Player
https://player.helixcommunity.org