Linux & Windows: "No ArgType for GValue*"

["David ROY" <david gamr7 com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile pygoocanvas on Linux and Windows.

I succeeded on both platforms (after having a hard time on
Windows) but I still have some virtual accessors and interfaces not being
created (on both platforms).

This happens because some of the types used in the .defs files are unknown
to gtk codegen/argtypes:

Could not write virtual accessor method GooCanvasItem.get_child_property:
No ArgType for GValue*
Could not write virtual accessor method GooCanvasItem.get_items_at: No
ArgType for GList*
Could not write virtual accessor method GooCanvasItem.child_notify: No
ArgType for GParamSpec*
etc...

>From what I understand, the types need to be registered:

* a bunch of them are registered at the end of codegen/argtypes.py:
matcher.register('GType', GTypeArg())
matcher.register('GError**', GErrorArg())

* you can register your custom types in your package, in our case in
arg-types.py:
matcher.register('GooCanvasBounds*', BoundsPtrArg())

However I can't figure out where GValue and his friends should be
registered and why they're not. This seems weird to me because for
instance "gtk-2.16.defs" uses "GValue*", so I don't think this is
something that should be done by the package itself, even if I found some
code on the internet that manually does the following:

class GValueArg(argtypes.ArgType):
    def write_param(self, ptype, pname, pdflt, pnull, info):
        info.varlist.add('GValue', pname + ' = { 0 }')
        info.varlist.add('PyObject', '*py_' + pname)
        info.codebefore.append('    pygda_value_from_pyobject(&%s,
py_%s);\n' % (pname, pname))
        info.codeafter.append('    if(G_IS_VALUE(&%s))
g_value_unset(&%s);\n' % (pname, pname))
        info.arglist.append('&' + pname)
        info.add_parselist('O', ['&py_' + pname], [pname])

    def write_return(self, ptype, ownsreturn, info):
        if(ptype == 'const-GValue*'):
            info.varlist.add('const GValue', '*ret')
        else:
            info.varlist.add('GValue', '*ret')
        info.varlist.add('PyObject', '*pyret')

        info.codeafter.append('    pyret = pygda_value_as_pyobject(ret,
TRUE);\n')
        if ownsreturn:
            info.codeafter.append('    if(G_IS_VALUE(ret))
g_value_unset(ret);\n')
        info.codeafter.append('    return pyret;')

arg = GValueArg()
argtypes.matcher.register('GValue*', arg)
argtypes.matcher.register('const-GValue*', arg)

Is there anyone that could help me on that subject?
Thanks in advance

-David

PS: if someone is stuck with the compilation on Windows, I'd be glad to help