Re: [gnome-love] call a function on a different compilation unit

[Marcus Karlsson <mk acc umu se>]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 08:06:46PM -0600, julio wrote:
> Hi,

Hi.

> I am trying to solve an issue on gnome photos and now I am thinking
> that it could be fixed by calling a function inside
> photos-searchbar.c the thing is that this function takes as
> parameter an object (you guessed!) PhotosSearchbar, actually a
> pointer to an object of that Class... and all the functions inside
> that file are static functions, as someone said I can not call a
> function of that file from another .c file is there a way around
> this? another thing is that there is no reference to the
> PhotosSearchbar object on the photos-embed.c file, so I can not pass
> it as an argument either...
>
> any help or guidance is appreciated

If the function expects an object of that class then you should only
call it in the context of an object of that type. If you want to call it
in the context of another class and the function is fairly small then
you may want to consider just copying it to your class, or refactor the
shared code so that both classes can use it. If the code is generic
enough that both classes can use it, then maybe there is a better place
to put that code.

                Marcus