Re: Gst::PlayBin2 signal_get_audio_tags trouble

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 09:34 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 23:19 -0500, José Alburquerque wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 11:27 +0100, kitone wrote: 
> > > Hi,
> > > I've some trouble to using the Gst::PlayBin2 element, specially the
> > > signals signal_get_*_tags.
> > > 
> > > With gstreamer (C) we can used g_signal_emit_by_name to received the
> > > tags. ex:
> > > 
> > >  for (i = 0; i < n_audio; i++) {
> > >    g_signal_emit_by_name (pipeline, "get-audio-tags", i, &tags);
> > >    ...
> 
> This is unpleasant. I hope it's not the documented way to use that API.
> GTK+, for instance, would have a method that happened to do this in it's
> implementation, maybe along with other checks.
> 
> But I guess gstreamer plugins rarely have actual API. They are usually
> used in C via generic property and signal functions, right? But can't we
> add a method in our C++ API?

Would adding a method be a problem?  I think it's possible through the
plug-in generator.

-- 
José