Re: GtkImageView

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Feb 18, 2008, at 4:10 AM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:

> On 17/02/2008, muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:
> > Now that you have a GBoxed GType for the struct (that can go upstream
> > just like the GEnum GTypes), you can also register the functions to
> > marshal the value to and from perl.  See gperl_register_boxed() in
> > Glib::xsapi.
>
> As I have added the GBoxed entries to maps, Glib::CodeGen is creating
> gperl_register_boxed() entries in register.xsh, but with NULL for the
> wrapper class. If I understand the Glib::xsapi correctly, this means
> the GBoxed gets a standard wrapper - which is what? Do I need to
> change this? If so, how?

Add your own call to gperl_register_boxed() in a BOOT: section, and  
pass the wrapper class there.  See files like Gtk2/xs/ 
PangoAttributes.xs and Gtk2/xs/GtkEntry for examples.

(or others, with "grep gperl_register_boxed Gtk2/xs/*.xs")



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