Re: [Vala] Getting Vala not to give a GValue pointer to a function?

[Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>]

Hi,

2010/3/12, Faheem Pervez <trippin1 gmail com>:
> Hiya,
>
>  Vala n00b here, so be nice, please.
Don't be afraid, we're don't eat noobs ;-p

>  The function http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/mafw/mafw-MafwMetadata.html#mafw-metadata-first
>  returns a GValue when given a a GHashTable and a string. That's all
>  well and good, except Vala also tries to give it a pointer to a GValue
>  as the third argument. As you can see, it only takes two arguments.
>
>  The relevant part of mafw.vapi looks like:
>         [CCode (cheader_filename = "libmafw/mafw.h")]
>         public static unowned GLib.Value metadata_first (GLib.HashTable md,
>  string key);
It should return "GLib.Value?" instead.
Since bindings are automatically generated, sometimes they need to be
fixed manually.

HTH,
Abderrahim