GObject property binding support in Glade - Weekly Report 08

[Denis Washington <denisw online de>]

Hi,

This week is not only GSoC midterm, but my first without course work 
from my University! Yesterday was also the last lecture this semester, 
so I will have much, much more time in the second half of GSoC. However, 
I need to write my exams next week, so I am only able to fully 
concentrate on coding the week after.

I have done some minor polishing work, though. Property bindings are now 
automatically removed if their source object is deleted (and re-added if 
the deletion is undone). More importantly, I also fixed a nasty bug 
introduced in week 05 which caused Glade to crash when adding a GtkBox 
to a window. (Strange that I didn't notice that, but oh well :)

With these fixes, support for basic property bindings should be 
essentially complete and reasonably robust. Therefore, beginning with 
next week, I will focus on implement support for the advanced features 
of GObject's property binding system, most notably transformation 
functions. For this, I'll need to return to my GTK+ branch and add some 
code there, which might lead to a bit of API being added to GtkBuilder 
(for connecting transformation functions like 
gtk_builder_connect_signals() does for signals); I'll send a message to 
gtk-devel-list to discuss this.

Lastly, let me tell you that this first half of GSoC, while somewhat 
stressful for me due to my other workload, was already a great deal of 
fun! I sincerely hope that my admittedly small amount of things I got 
done in these first eight weeks still live up to your expectations and 
that I can continue to participate!

Regards,
Denis