Re: .defs Issues From Java-Gnome

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Ariel Rios wrote:

> 
> > boxed was introduced to let language bindings deal with plain C structures,
> > such as
> > struct _GtkRequisition
> > {
> >   gint width;
> >   gint height;
> > };
> > 
> This is not completely true. Boxed means a pointer to some structure.  You
> have to explicitely manage the  lifetime of those structures by invoking
> some functions at the
> right times.
> 
> For wrapping simple C structures we do have 
> (define-struct)

this is true, (define-struct) doesn't tell you what signal/function
passes what structure as parameters, the boxed type ids do.
those "some functions at the right times" are _copy/_free for boxed
types, and really nothing more, unless you do know how to access
specifics, e.g. through a (define-struct), but that's a .defs file
thingy, not soemthing gtk gives you.

> 
> It might be interesting to se Marius' origial proposal at:
> gnome-guile/guile-gtk/PROPOSAL
>  

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ciaoTJ