Re: Gtk2-perl shell (problem with GLib-GObject)

[Remco Wouts <remco wouts mpibp-frankfurt mpg de>]

muppet wrote:
> have you seen
>   http://asofyet.org/muppet/software/gtk2-perl/gish.html
> or
>   http://asofyet.org/muppet/software/gtk2-perl/gws.html
I had seen gish of course ;-). On my system it uses 99% of the CPU 
continuously. That is why I decided to use Term::Readline::Gnu.
Also I wanted to use history and completion. The gws approach is 
interesting as well.

> The workaround for this would be to use different type names every 
> time.  It would be conceivable to have the bindings generate a new C 
> type name for each package, but this is not desirable for several reasons:
> a) you can't unregister GType types, so the old types would still be 
> there, just waiting to cause problems.
> b) mapping names names like Some::Package to Some-Package-4162 isn't 
> very friendly, especially when you start getting error messages.
Well I don't want to change the types, just the methods when I reread a 
package, maybe that can be done somehow.
> >  2) The subclassed widget itself does not work correctly ie. after the 
> > first 'do' it loads but does not display correctly. It does display 
> > correctly when you load modify 'gish' to load the package at startup.
>
>
> What do you mean by "does not display correctly"?
>
> What version of Glib are you using?  There's a bugfix in 1.060 related 
> to late loading of Glib::Object::Subclass.
1.042. I'll upgrade
Thanks for looking at this.
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remco