Re: LDTP - Your inputs will drive us

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jul 14, 2004, at 6:34 PM, Nagappan wrote:

> I'm working on a project Linux Desktop Testing Project
> (www.gnomebangalore.org/ldtp/index.html).
...

> 1) Bonobo based implementation [snip]
> 2) Using D-BUS [snip]

no experience with either of these, so i'll skip them.  so far as i 
know, there are currently no perl bindings for corba/bonobo stuff that 
will work with gnome2.  (anyone who knows any better, please speak up.)


> 3) If Python / Perl / Java / Guile / Tcl provides a function like 
> gtk_module_init, then all my problems may be solved :) I can register 
> for the new signal inside my new module written in Python or some 
> other language apart from C. So, I will get a control with the object 
> value inside my registered function. Again, I'm not sure, this 
> function is available in other languages.

um, gtk_module_init() is not part of gtk+'s api and would not be bound 
by language bindings.  gtk_module_init() is a function that is looked 
for by gtk+ when loading modules.  you can specify the modules to load 
with a command line option that is handled by gtk_init() and 
gtk_init_check().

with gtk2-perl, you'd just pass the same option, a la 
"--gtk-modules=foo,bar" to the perl script, and it will automatically 
be passed down to gtk_init() when the time comes (provided the script 
doesn't remove it first).

the modules are expected to export this binary symbol and thus are 
usually written in C or C++.  as the module loading happens under the 
hook of gtk+, it should be usable with any language, as the bindings 
have no need or means to touch it.


if, instead, you are wanting to write one of these modules in a 
language using a gtk+ language binding, the solution is going to be 
that a new binding module would have to be created which binds a 
generic module bootstrapper to that language.

in the case of perl, it would involve creating a new gtkmodule which 
embeds a perl interpreter; the interpreter would be bootstrapped by the 
call to gtk_module_init().  i've never tried something like this, so 
while it is possible in theory, i cannot verify that it would work.



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