Re: [gtk-list] Re: Interpreter requests

[Marius Vollmer <mvo zagadka ping de>]

Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> writes:

> GtkType
> foo_enum_get_type (void)
> {
[...]
> }

Wouldn't it be better to just add gtk_type_register_enum /
gtk_type_register_flags / etc functions to Gtk, so that
foo_enum_get_type could just look like:

    GtkType
    foo_enum_get_type (void)
    {
      static GtkType type = GTK_TYPE_INVALID;
      if (type == GTK_TYPE_INVALID)
        type = gtk_type_register_enum ("FooEnum", foo_enum_values);
      return type;
    }

gtk_type_register_enum would be

    GtkType
    gtk_type_register_enum (char *name, GtkEnumValues *vals)
    {
      GtkTypeInfo enum_info =
      {
	name,
	0,
	0,
	(GtkClassInitFunc) NULL,
	(GtkObjectInitFunc) NULL,
	(GtkArgSetFunc) NULL,
	(GtkArgGetFunc) NULL,
      };

      GtkType type = gtk_type_unique_no_hook (GTK_TYPE_ENUM_TYPE, &enum_info);
      gtk_type_enum_set_values (type, vals);
      gtk_type_run_creation_hooks (type);

      return type;
    }

gtk_type_enum_set_values could then be removed from the exported
functions.

Other useful registration functions (and associated getters) would
certainly be

    GtkType gtk_type_register_boxed (char *name, copy, free);
    GtkType gtk_type_register_foreign (char *name, copy, free, ...);
    GtkType gtk_type_register_object (...);

Ask me if you want to know more about what I have in mind here.