Re: Subclassing Gtk2::CellRenderer

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 07:43, Bjarne Steinsbø wrote:
> Thanks a lot, muppet.  You're confirming my most pessimistic 
> suspicions.  I took at quick look at the xs code (and even some gtk+ 
> code) and I'm now starting to get a glimmer of understanding (and 
> appreciation) of the magic that goes on to make the perl interface work 
> so well as it does.
>
> Still, wouldn't it be nice to be able to do anything you can do in C in 
> perl as well?  Not necessarily making it simple to do in perl, but at 
> least possible?  Some additional magic during code generation, maybe?  
> Exposing in special-purpose perl classes what you're doing your best to 
> hide in the normal case?

you might want to look around and see if anyone has already got code for
what you're looking for. it seems like a reasonable common thing to do. 

either way you could totally implement the code in an XS files so you
wouldn't have to deal with the issues of installing a separate C library
and the wrappers for it. all of the C implementation would just go up at
the top, then a module line and the wrappers. in theory it shouldn't be
that hard to do, since you could use the existing combo widget, but once
again that's theory.

-rm