Re: [gtk-list] Re: gmodule

[Marcus Brubaker <spoon elpaso net>]

Thanks for the info, that was pretty much what I was expecting.  I think
this just made my night, even after GTK+ caused Xlib to screw up... ;)

On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Marcus Brubaker wrote:
> > Are there any places were documentation or example code is available for
> > this?  Are there any programs currently using this?  Plus, if someone
> > could give me a basic idea of what it is for and how it might be used I
> > would appreciate it.  Thanks.
> > 
> 
> The 'testgmodule' program in the gmodule directory is pretty much a
> comprehensive example. 
> 
> It's a dlopen wrapper, so the dlopen man page would probably be
> enlightening. Basically you open a shared library and you can access
> symbols in the library. For example, if you opened libgtk.so you could
> ask for "gtk_widget_new" by name, get a pointer back, and call the
> function via the pointer.
> 
> It's useful to write plugins, for example. Each plugin can be a shared
> lib. I'm using it in Guppi (http://www.gnome.org/guppi) version 0.0.2
> which will be out RSN. (the one currently on the web site does not use
> it.)
> 
> Havoc
> 
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