Re: [gnome-love] Projects using GObject

[Thierry Chappuis <thierry mujigka ch>]

Thank you all for your answers. I'll study all this information carefully.

Best regards

Thierry


Shaun McCance a écrit :
> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 11:12 +0200, Thierry Chappuis wrote:
>   
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm currently writing a course discussing object-oriented programming in 
> > C using the GObject system. That is quite easy to find plenty of 
> > GUI-based examples using this library. However, I'm looking for some 
> > non-GUI-based projects using the GObject framework in order to provide 
> > readers with a representative overview of its use in real-world programs.
> >
> > I would be highly interested in getting some ideas and/or project 
> > examples on this subject. Thank you by advance.
> >     
>
> You could look at Yelp.  We use GObject to help us provide a
> uniform data type and API for doing document transformations.
> In the current Yelp, there's a YelpPager base class to define
> the common API.  We then have subclasses for various document
> types, such as DocBook, man, and info.
>
> On the yelp-spoon branch, we've restructured the transformation
> API to address some issues that we only saw after a few years of
> hindsight.  On this branch, we have a common YelpDocument class,
> which is again subclassed for the various document types.
>
> Using GObject for these means:
>
> 1) We can have a single API, so that very few places in Yelp
>    have to know what type of document they're dealing with.
> 2) We can push common code into base classes, minimizing code
>    duplication.
> 3) We get reference counting for free.
>
> We do use non-GObject structs for quite a few things as well,
> some of them non-trivial (for example, the new YelpPage on
> the yelp-spoon branch).
>
> --
> Shaun
>
>
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