Re: define-struct

[Andrei Zmievski <andrei ispi net>]

At 09:57 AM 12/13/01 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:
> Could you give some examples of the structs you want to use (define-struct 
> ...) for?  I have found that most of the structs that are not registered 
> with the gtype system often map nicely to native types in python (such as 
> GdkPoint to a 2-tuple).
>
> One other definition we probably need to add is a (define-pointer ...) 
> one.  Sonething like:
>  (define-pointer CTreeNode
>    (in-module "Gtk")
>    (c-name "GtkCTreeNode")
>    (gtype-id "GTK_TYPE_CTREE_NODE")
>  )
>
> This is to cover types that are derived from G_TYPE_POINTER.  These types 
> don't have any copy/free functions, so are not handled quite the same as 
> G_TYPE_BOXED types.

What about GdkPixbuf struct, for example? It's not derived from 
GtkObject/GObject, but has _ref and _unref functions.

-Andrei