Re: rhythmbox proxy bindings

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Aug 5, 2004, at 8:21 PM, Lee Aylward wrote:

> I am interested in binding this file to perl, but I don't know if it 
> is possible. The file itself seems quite heavy on Bonobo, which I know 
> is not properly working in gtk2-perl. Does this matter?

since the header (which is the one you'd #include to get the 
prototypes) very politely hides all of the nasty bonobo/corba 
internals, it looks like this would be very easy and straightforward.

the sticky point will be the fact that RbProxySongInfo is an alias for 
GNOME_Rhythmbox_SongInfo, which is defined in the Rhythmbox IDL (i 
think).  in reality you'd want that structure to be turned into a perl 
hash containing the song information; you'd use a custom 
GPerlBoxedWrapperClass to do that.  sounds hairy but it's really quite 
easy.


> I've never really done any XS before, but I have been reading up on it 
> quite a bit. I made an attempt at creating an XS file for rb-proxy but 
> made very little headway.

catch me in irc and i'll walk you through it.


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