Re: libzvt - perl.

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 10:09  PM, Leon Strong wrote:

> Im looking at putting together a module that encompas's perl and libzvt
> that can tie into both perl-gtk and perl-gtk2,

you won't be able to get the same code to work with both versions of 
the bindings, but you should be able to create the same perl api if you 
are careful.

>  however i've never had to
> do anything like this before, and would greatly appreciate any pointers
> to documentation and starting points. I'm not sure how many of you out
> there use ZVT, but my main application i've been developing relies on 
> it
> heavily, and now that it's been phased out of Gnome, i'd like to 
> continue
> using it seperately with gtk-perl2 (if it's feasible).. suggestions?

/me puts on sales pitch hat
gtk2-perl-xs has been designed around the idea of making it easy to 
write new, independent extensions.
/me takes off silly hat


i presume that libzvt exports a gtk widget; this basically means you 
want to chain a module from Gtk2.  GtkSpell, Gnome2 and GnomeCanvas all 
do this, and you can use them as starting points.  GtkSpell is an 
example of a library that just adds functions; GnomeCanvas adds a few 
new objects; Gnome2 adds a whole slew of new objects.


i haven't gotten around to completing a HOWTO about writing new 
extensions, but it's not that hard.  you'll want to read through 
new-gtk2-perl.html at the top of the CVS tree (with a grain of salt, 
some of the details may be out of date) and check the archives for the 
months since april 2003 in case i've actually posted a missive about 
writing extensions (i don't have a full archive in my mailbox anymore).