Re: Living on the bleeding edge (a bug report)

[Bjarne Steinsbø <bosteins broadpark no>]

muppet wrote:

> Bjarne Steinsbø said:
>  
>
> if you're going to use gtk+ 2.3.x, i recommend lurking on the 
> gtk-devel list
>
> to stay abreast of new happenings.
>  
I might do that, or maybe just look at the change log once in a while to 
see if anything interesting has been commited.

I'm truly impressed by the quality of these "unstable" releases, btw.  
That goes for perl-gtk also.

> what do you say to returning a string like "2.3.0" in scalar context, and the
> list of elements in list context?
>
>  
Sounds good to me.  I was about to suggest using a perl version string 
(like "v2.3.0") until I re-read the perl docs and saw that version 
strings are beeing deprecated.  According to 
http://search.cpan.org/~jpeacock/version-0.32/lib/version.pm (at least 
the way I read it), a quoted string is the best solution while waiting 
for perl-5.10.

> speaking of that being absent in the bindings, support for 2.3.0 adds 21 new
> files to Gtk2.  i have these on deck on my home machine, waiting to go into
> cvs as soon as i get the build on HEAD ready to make a branch to support
> 2.3.x.  before you ask why i'm not supporting 2.3.x on HEAD, it's because
> 2.3.x is not guaranteed to be API stable, and i want only bindings for stable
> gtk+ on HEAD (even if HEAD isn't always stable).  stay tuned, i'll have this
> stuff in soon, i swear.
>  
Looking forward to it.  My eyes are still on the treeview stuff, and 
there's now a filter that can be applied to the model.  I'm not sure how 
easy this will be to use from perl, though, increasingly it seems that 
gtk+ implements new "interface"s for new and advanced stuff, and I 
really miss being able to subclass any kind of gtk+ class and override 
even vtable-methods.  I've now spent hours and even days trying to find 
a good way to listen in to dnd-operations on tree-models, but had to 
give up in the end because I found no reliable way to determine the drop 
point without overriding the drag_data_received method in 
Gtk2::TreeDragDestIface.

Bjarne