Re: GOB + Language Bindings.

[Bruce Korb <bkorb cruzio com>]

Shlomi Fish and Bob Smith wrote:
>
> Nice idea!
> 
> From what I know Gtk+ widgets can be described by a some kind of format
> language with Scheme-like syntax. The various language bindings parse
> and use those descriptions to create the bindings for each language.
> 
> You can tweak GOB to create those descriptions for you, and then you can
> use the scripts supplied in the languages bindings to generate the
> bindings.

> On 21 Aug 2000, Bob Smith wrote:
> > I was playing around with GOB, and I had a really cool idea. (IMHO :)
> > GOB is used to generate all the harry GTK object code needed to create
> > an object, freeing up the developer to just fill in the blanks. The GOB
> > file contains basicly the API of the object being created. Since it
> > contains this information, couldn't it be used not only to create the
> > stub object, but also the language bindings for the object? GTK itself
> > is mostly GTK objects. If GOB files were created for each widget, it
> > could be ran through a progi to generate almost all of the binding
> > automaticly. Only functions like gtk_main() and such would have to be
> > bound by hand. (binding the few remaining functions could even be done
> > with SWIG). From what I have seen, creating new QT widgets is fairly
> > simple compared to GTK. But with a system like I described above,
> > someone wanting to make a new widget just makes a GOB file, fills in the
> > blanks in the code, and runs it through the gob-bindings. Not only would
> > it create the C widget, it would also automaticly create the language
> > bindings for the widget. The author wouldn't even need to know the
> > language. It would then be simpler to create GTK objects then under QT.
> > :)

I write lotsa C -> (some scripting language) -> C stuff, but I know
nothing of GOB & GTK.  So, if someone knows how to get a Schemey a-list
describing the interface out of GOB and someone (else?) can give me
a clear guide on how to set up GTK calls and callbacks from C, then
I can do this easily.