Re: Wrapping gboolean list[] for Glib::KeyFile

[rob page <page rob gmail com>]

Ah! Brilliant, that's exactly what I was after (I think!)

Thanks.

On 16/02/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:08 +0000, rob page wrote:
> [snip]
> > g_key_file_get_boolean_list returns a gboolean*, which works fine,
> > however, the Glib::ArrayHandle<bool> constructor requires a bool* as
> > its first argument and it doesn't seem able to do an implicit
> > conversion from gboolean*.
>
> I think you need to define a TypeTrait that tells the ArrayHandle how to
> do the conversion. For instance, see BasicTypeTraits<bool> in gconfmm.
>
> I don't like ArrayHandle<> and friends, even though it is apparently the
> correct way to present a container in an C++ API, and if I could break
> the API then I would just force people to use either vector or list. But
> for now, we need to be consistent.
>
> > So, I either need a way to convert bool_list from a gboolean* to a bool*
> > OR
> > I need to be able to convert Glib::ArrayHandle<gboolean> to
> > Glib::ArrayHandle<bool>
> >
> > Alternatively... I'm not seeing a really obvious way of doing this.
> > Which is very possible :-)
> >
> > Hope this makes it clearer.
> >
> > Rob.
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