Re: gtk2-perl-xs on Mandrake?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 11:56 AM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:

> Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandrakesoft com> writes:
>
> > > I'll do that and hope that Mandrake 9.2 will move to gtk2-perl-xs.
> >
> > we lacks something to get root window (like
> > gdk_x11_get_default_root_xwindow() from gdk/gdkx.h)

had discussed something like this with ggc a while back.  i think all 
the X11-specific stuff should go into a separate, optional module, e.g. 
Gtk2::Gdk::X11, and similarly for the framebuffer and win32 stuff.

thankfully, gdk_get_default_root_window() is in gdk proper 
(gdkwindow.h), so we don't really have to worry about that yet.

and i just put gdk_get_default_root_window() in CVS as 
Gtk2::Gdk->get_default_root_window.  i put it in GdkWindow.xs rather 
than Gdk.xs as in your patch, because the prototype is in gdkwindow.h.  
i'm not sure why the prototype wasn't already in GdkWindow.xs, at least 
commented out; i suppose this file was created before ross fixed the 
bigger bugs in genfirstpass.pl.


> we also need access to PANGO_PIXELS, so a wrapper must me written in
> xs.

added this to PangoFont.xs as Gtk2::Pango->PANGO_PIXELS, aliased to 
Gtk2::Pango->pixels.  normally it would go in PangoTypes.xs, because 
it's in pango-types.h, but PANGO_SCALE was already in there.

all this pango stuff has a very inconsistent and ugly interface; 
somebody who understands pango well should come up with a revision for 
our perl API for pango.


> btw, why Gtk2->init does not handle @ARGV now. i had to do the 
> following:
> <ugtk3.diff>

actually, it *does* handle @ARGV --- it explicitly gets @main::ARGV.  
if you need to push or pop other args, work on that one.  gtk-handled 
args will also be automagically deleted from @ARGV.