Re: Gdk RGBA color

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 13.08.2012 23:41, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> On 13.08.2012 17:33, zentara wrote:
> > $textview1->override_background_color('normal', Gtk3::Gdk::RGBA(
> > 0,0,0,1 ) );
>
> Gtk3::Gdk::RGBA->new (...) should work, but doesn't currently.  That's a
> genuine hole in the bindings: GdkRGBA is a boxed type which doesn't have
> a constructor, which is something Glib::Object::Introspection doesn't
> support at the moment.  Usually, structs that you are supposed to create
> manually (which is something G:O:I does support) don't have a boxed type
> associated to them.  If GdkRGBA didn't have a boxed type, then {red=>1,
> green=>1, ...} would work wherever a GdkRGBA is expected.
>
> It looks like we need to add a standard constructor for boxed types
> which don't provide one already.

This is now done with these two commits:

<http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Glib-Object-Introspection/commit/?id=fc2a3ceb6d07bd0e2010dcb3cc0473e9fe4464c0>
<http://git.gnome.org/browse/perl-Gtk3/commit/?id=607f2ef3d8092e5eb189553b5636f983fb48408f>