Re: GTK3 porting problem (clipboard)

[Jaroslav Šmíd <jardasmid gmail com>]

And perhaps missing accessors for GtkTargetList should be reported as BUG.

On 03/11/2011 08:55 AM, Miroslav Rajcic wrote:
> > You're right, but this seems odd. In the GTK3 version of the
> > documentation the basic structures GtkTargetEntry and
> > GtkTargetPair are still exposed in the API, and although
> > GtkTargetList is said to be opaque (a) it's unclear why this
> > should be so (it seems to be a trivial composite) and (b) the
> > functionality that was previously available via the struct itself
> > is not replicated via accessor functions. For example, there's no
> >
> > gtk_target_list_get_n_targets()
> >
> > to replace the original poster's GTK2 idiom:
> >
> > int nTargetCnt = g_list_length (list->list);
>
> Perhaps someone knows any workaround for what I am trying to do in my
> code or a way to implement this differently?
>
> The code does the following:
>
> //create a target list with text and HTML formats
> GtkTargetList *list = gtk_target_list_new (NULL, 0);
> gtk_target_list_add(list, atomTextHtml, 0, 0);
> gtk_target_list_add_text_targets(list, 0);
>
> //now I need to convert the target list to an array of the
> GtkTargetEntry structures as needed by gtk_clipboard_set_with_data
> int nTargetCnt = g_list_length (list->list);
> GtkTargetEntry *targets = g_new0 (GtkTargetEntry, nTargetCnt);
> int i=0;
> for (GList *l=list->list; l; l=l->next, i++)
> {
> GtkTargetPair *pair = (GtkTargetPair *)l->data;
> targets[i].target = gdk_atom_name (pair->target);
> }
>
> //set the clipboard with target formats
> gboolean bOK = gtk_clipboard_set_with_data(clipboard, targets,
> nTargetCnt, MyGtkClipboardGetFunc, NULL, 0);
>
> Basically the big problem is that gtk_clipboard_set_with_data API does
> not use GtktargetList directly.
>
> Regards,
> Miroslav
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