Re: gtk2 news

[Mark Ivey <zovirl sbcglobal net>]

Thank you for taking this up!  I'm glad there are people who understand
it (I don't...) and are willing to work on it.

It is appreciated!

-Mark Ivey-



On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 18:24, muppet wrote:
> Scott Smith wrote:
>
>  >Thoughts anyone?
>  >
>
> sounds like a plan!
>
> here are a couple of things i noticed from writing a rather large XS
> project which needed to interface to the original GtkPerl ------ you
> might want to watch out for these if you haven't considered them already:
>
> - memory leaks are very easy to create, especially when passing a perl
> list as args to a callback, or in general any callback data.  in most
> places, the fix for these leaks was to hand-code the XS interface for
> that function.
>
> - the type system used a cache to speed up type lookups.  will such
> caching be necessary with GObject as opposed to GtkObject?
>
> - in several points of the API, turning the existing function names into
> sensible perl OO syntax required some special handling ---- especially
> with functions which modified arguments.  in the old code these were
> hand-coded to have them pass back the multiple return values as a list,
> in the perl-ish style.  are you planning to have a perl-ish interface to
> the generated code, or keep it C-ish?  how will you determine which ones
> are return values?
>
>
>
> not meaning to cast aspersions, i'm honestly trying to help.  if you
> need/want coding help, gimme a holler.
>
> -- muppet
>
>
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