Re: Passing in GTypes as parameters...

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 06:46  PM, muppet wrote:

> On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 06:17  PM, Brett Kosinski wrote:
>
> > Thus, unfortunately, I can think of no way to wrap this except to 
> > pass in
> > GType's into the functions somehow.
>
> in many cases it's your only option, so you do what you gotta do.   a 
> typemap for GType does not belong in Glib itself because the cases in 
> which you need to interface with GTypes should be handled directly.  a 
> single typemap isn't appropriate, because the package-to-gtype 
> bindings are not universal.  there are no typemaps for GEnums or 
> GFlags, for example.
>
> > So... any ideas on how to deal with this? :)
>
> you just pass the package name in the spots where you can't do without 
> a GType.  narrow things down as much as possible, so you can do the 
> best error checking possible.  for example, if you are working with a 
> factory that creates GBoxed objects, then use 
> gperl_boxed_type_from_package, but if you are using a GObject factory, 
> use gperl_object_type_from_package.