Re: GNOME 2.0 Status and Martin's Travelling Schedule

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:

> Larger outstanding issues aka "Issues which ``block'' the platform":
> ===================================================================
> 
> * We need a multi-threaded ORB and an easy API to do asnyc operations
>   over CORBA.
> 
>   I run into this problem when trying to fix GnomeSelector; imagine you
>   have an application which is displaying an icon entry. Internally,
>   this icon entry is implemented as BonoboControl and it can talk to
>   a remove GNOME::Selector CORBA object.
> 
>   So if your wants to tell the icon entry to display an image, it calls
>   gnome_selector_client_add_uri() which should have the same API like
>   gnome_selector_add_uri() in the non-Bonoboified selector:
> 
>      void
>      gnome_selector_add_uri (GnomeSelector             *selector,
>                              GnomeSelectorAsyncHandle **async_handle_return,
>                              const gchar               *filename,
>                              gint                       position,
>                              guint                      list_id,
>                              GnomeSelectorAsyncFunc     async_func,
>                              gpointer                   user_data);
> 
>   Now imaging this function is called gnome_selector_client_add_uri() and
>   it invokes the `add_uri' method on a remote GNOME::Selector CORBA object.
>   This operation must not block until the image is loaded, but return
>   immediately and trigger a callback when the image is loaded.

Sorry for being stupid last night. Of course we already have Bonobo::Listener
and Bonobo::EventSource for this :-)

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Martin Baulig
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