Re: GType::register RFE

[Brett Kosinski <brettk frodo dyn gno org>]

Doh!

s/Glib::Object::Subclass/GType::register/

*sigh*

> Is there any way Glib::Object::Subclass can be enhanced to allow one to
> pass in custom base_init and class_init functions (which would be executed
> before/after the built-in ones)?  I'm trying to implement element
> subclassing in GStreamer, and in order to do it properly, I need to be
> able to do this.
>
> Now, the biggest problem I see with this is that, since GType::register is
> Perl-visible, the only thing you can really pass in is a CV... but, of
> course, there's no typemap for GTypeClass (or it's "subclasses", like
> GObjectClass), which is what the CV would be receiving, so there's a
> question of how to marshal the arguments.  OTOH, if the code just got an
> opaque SV containing a pointer to the structure, I'd be fine with that,
> since the coderef would just call an XS function, anyway (which could then
> unwrap the SV and cast the pointer).  But that's just me. :)
>
> Anyway, if there any ideas, I'd love to hear them.  Otherwise I'll be
> forced to resort to copy-and-pasting the existing GType::register code,
> which would *really* suck. :)
>
> Brett.
>
>
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