Re: [Vala] Error in glib-2.0.vala binding of g_strdup_printf

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Cayle,

On Die, 2006-09-12 at 23:01 -0500, Cayle Graumann wrote:
>     Thanks for all the advice.  Moving everything to the vapi dir
> worked well.  But in duplicating one of the GenX simple demos to test
> the new binding, 
> I discovered another small error in the glib bindings. 
>
> The binding for string.printf should be made static, since
> g_strdup_printf does not take the object as it's first argument. 

It depends how you look at it. Something like

"%s: %d".printf ("Hello", 5)

works perfectly fine. Have you encountered a situation where it doesn't
work at all when using string.printf as an instance method?

Jürg