Re: _GtkAppliationPrivate struct declaration not included in any header file?

[Richard Billington <billingt AI SRI COM>]

Excellent - thanks for your quick, clear response.

On 06/01/2015 05:37 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi;
>
> On 29 May 2015 at 04:49, Richard Billington <billingt ai sri com> wrote:
> > But its referenced in gtkapplication.h:
> >     typedef struct _GtkApplicationPrivate GtkApplicationPrivate;
> >
> > I'm trying to create an FFI to GTK+ using SWIG, and this lack means I can't.
> I'm pretty sure you can, since every other language binding deals with
> it just fine.
>
> > Thoughts? Thanks
> GtkApplicationPrivate is just a typed pointer used to pad the instance
> structure; what it points to is irrelevant, since it's data private to
> the GtkApplication type.
>
> You need to take it into account when sizing the instance structure
> (something you can also do by using g_type_query() and getting the
> instance size), but you should not have access to its contents — that
> being the whole point of having the private data in the first place.
>
> Ciao,
>   Emmanuele.