Re: [pygtk] PyGObject porting help -- constants

[Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu sugarlabs org>]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:42, jors <worbynet gmail com> wrote:
> El mar, 05-10-2010 a las 08:56 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió:
>> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 23:52, Robert Park <rbpark exolucere ca> wrote:
>> > Since nobody's replied and Google doesn't even really know, I emailed
>> > John Palmieri directly, who kindly explained that the file
>> > /usr/share/gir-1.0/Gtk-2.0.gir holds all the answers. It's the
>> > introspection data in XML format, so it's mostly human readable.
>> >
>> > For example, I needed to know the new name for the constant
>> > Gtk.TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_AUTOSIZE, so I searched through the .gir file,
>> > and eventually found this:
>> >
>> >    <enumeration name="TreeViewColumnSizing"
>> >                 glib:type-name="GtkTreeViewColumnSizing"
>> >                 glib:get-type="gtk_tree_view_column_sizing_get_type"
>> >                 c:type="GtkTreeViewColumnSizing">
>> >      <member name="grow_only"
>> >              value="0"
>> >              c:identifier="GTK_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_GROW_ONLY"
>> >              glib:nick="grow-only"/>
>> >      <member name="autosize"
>> >              value="1"
>> >              c:identifier="GTK_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_AUTOSIZE"
>> >              glib:nick="autosize"/>
>> >      <member name="fixed"
>> >              value="2"
>> >              c:identifier="GTK_TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_FIXED"
>> >              glib:nick="fixed"/>
>> >    </enumeration>
>> >
>> > The new name of the constant is going to be "Gtk" plus the enumeration
>> > name "TreeViewColumnSizing", plus the member name "autosize" in ALL
>> > CAPS, separated by periods. So: Gtk.TreeViewColumnSizing.AUTOSIZE
>> >
>> > I hope Google picks this up for the sake of other people like myself
>> > who've struggled with this.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is kind of mentioned in
>> http://live.gnome.org/PyGObject/IntrospectionPorting , see the
>> pygi-convert.sh script.
>>
>> It would be great if you could help making that page more useful (and
>> maybe easier to find), right now the number of contributors is
>> ridiculously small compared with the number of people who will have to
>> port their apps to introspection.
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> Sorry for the late reply, but I've recently published some kind of
> "intro doc" as a porting howto. It's on spanish, and if Google
> Translator (or alike) doesn't do the job, I could also translate it.
>
> http://enchufado.com/post.php?ID=328
>
> Any contrinution is welcome!
>
> This couldn't be done without Tomeu, J5 and others help, so... many
> thanks :)

It looks great, would be awesome if you could find time to translate
to english then I would proxy it to Planet GNOME and hopefully someone
will also put it in Planet Python.

Nice work,

Tomeu

> Regards,
> jors
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Robert Park <rbpark exolucere ca> wrote:
>> >> Hi everybody,
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to port a medium sized app to use the new
>> >> introspection-based PyGObject stuff, and a big stumbling block I've
>> >> come up against is that all the constants have changed their names
>> >> (the irony! it burns!). For example, gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL is now
>> >> Gtk.WindowType.TOPLEVEL.
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