Re: Porting launcher-gtk.py to gobject introspection

[Nicolas Évrard <nicoe altern org>]

* Jiří Techet  [2011-12-22 15:52 +0100]: 


> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to port the demos launcher-gtk.py to use gobject
> > > > introspection. But I seem to be unable to grok the introspection
> > > > concept.
> > >
> > > First, the method called by the demo is
> > > champlain_label_new_with_text() and not
> > > champlain_marker_new_with_text() which appears you try to call (and
> > > which doesn't exist).
> >
> >
> > Well I took as an example the last version of launcher-gtk.py that I
> > could find:
> >
> > http://gitorious.org/libchamplain/mainline/commit/c02e827d01762d39d709b2e4d7a58828dc800818/diffs
>
> Ah, OK, that was using the old API - there will be more changes like
> this if you want to convert it to the introspection-based bindings.

It was an exercise for me to start from the old API as we have to
develop something using it and sooner or later we will have to switch
to the new API … So I wanted to have a feeling of the difficulty of
the task.

> > BTW once I have finished rewritting those (I'll have some time on the
> > 25 I guess) are you interested in the result ? It would probably help
> > people looking for example I think.
>
> Sure! Having more demos is always good both for new users and also for
> testing all the features. At the moment libchamplain doesn't have many
> demos testing introspection bindings and having a demo testing more
> libchamplain features is certainly welcome.

Since it gave me the opportunity to test mercurial-git I did the port
yesterday.

I uploaded the diff to codereview:

    http://codereview.appspot.com/5498079/

I have some remarks on the code in order to make it more pythonic. But
I don't know if it's possible (I'll try to take a look some time).

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