Re: [pygtk] PyGObject porting help -- constants

[jors <worbynet gmail com>]

El mar, 05-10-2010 a las 15:06 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 13:56, jors <worbynet gmail com> wrote:
> > El mar, 05-10-2010 a las 10:51 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió:
> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks, and done! Although my english is not perfect and the document
> > can be considered only a brief introduction to the topic, hope it helps.
> >
> > http://enchufado.com/post.php?ID=329
> >
> > Contributions, comments, corrections, spellchecks... :)
> 
> Just proxied it to Planet GNOME (you may want to consider asking for
> your blog to be syndicated there).
> 
> http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2010/10/notes-on-porting-python-application-to.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tomeu

Great, thanks Tomeu, hope it can guide a little bit future PyGi users.

After reading Planet GNOME guidelines, it will be better to not
sindicate my blog there since I don't usually write posts in english.
Maybe on some alike local planet :)

Cheers,
jors