Re: Started adding GObject signals to gnome-class

[Niko Matsakis <niko alum mit edu>]

I've been wanting to integrate the gnome-class stuff with glib-rs -- but
+1 from me! Just haven't had any time to investigate :(

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 09:44 +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > This is good timing BTW, I was going to write a full example of
> > GObject subclasses with interfaces implementations, signals, action
> > signals, properties, virtual methods, gobject-introspection support
> > next week. Using the glib-rs infrastructure but otherwise manual.
> > Goal would be to have a baseline / template to what gnome-class
> > should be able to generate, to have it all written out and functional
> > so that also someone not knowing the implementation details of
> > GObject can start working on that.
>
> See, I love it when this happens:
>
> Federico: "hi, please help me make fire by rubbing sticks"
>
> Sebastian: "here, have this high-tech oven instead"
>
> Having this example of all the GObjects bells and whistles used from
> Rust would be *VERY* helpful for the code generator!
>
> I will definitely start looking at gstreamer-rs and the gtk-rs
> infrastructure.  From librsvg I've only interacted with cairo-rs, which
> doesn't use GIR, and a bit of the glib::translate stuff - none of the
> fancy GObject wrappers.
>
> I love the idea of having gobject_gen!() also generate Rust entry
> points that look just like what gtk-rs would have.
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions; it is very encouraging to know where to
> steal examples of use :)
>
> Ideally we would also be able to emit GIR information directly - since
> the procedural macro can basically do anything in addition to emitting
> tokens, maybe we can have it spit a cratename.gir/typelib on the
> side...
>
>   Federico
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