Re: Started adding GObject signals to gnome-class

[Sebastian Dröge <slomo coaxion net>]

On 23 August 2017 05:12:44 EEST, Federico Mena Quintero <federico gnome org> wrote:

> gnome-class lets you derive from C GObjects.
>
> I *think* gtk-rs lets you create a wrapped/bound gobject if you just
> have a pointer to it, correct?  If so, gnome-class lets you access your
> parent instance or parent class, and get a pointer to it... could one
> pass that pointer to gtk-rs and get a binding for your parent?
>
> Am I thinking that you want to do
>
> gobject_gen! {
>    class MyWidget: GtkWidget {
>        ... derive it ...
>    }
> }
>
> and in your implementation of MyWidget, actually use gtk-rs's binding
> for GtkWidget instead of calling gtk functions by hand?

That would be the idea, and gobject_gen! would also generate the Rust bindings for MyWidget at the same time 
via the gtk-rs macros and wrapper functions in the style of the gtk-rs gir tool. So that further subclasses 
can use that again then.


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