gtk-sharp 2.99.1

[Bertrand Lorentz <install-module master gnome org>]

News
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Gtk# 2.99.1 is the second release of C# bindings for GTK 3.x. This is a beta
release, primarily intended for applications developers who want to start
porting their application to GTK 3.x.

This version of Gtk# provides bindings for the API exposed by these libraries:
  * cairo 1.10.0
  * glib 2.28.0
  * pango 1.28.3
  * atk 1.32.0
  * gdk-pixbuf 2.22.1
  * gtk+ 3.0.0

There is no API stability guarantee for now, but we will try to keep breaking
changes to a minimum.

This version of Gtk# can be installed in parallel with Gtk# 2.x, and should not
have any impact on applications using Gtk# 2.x.

New features and enhancements
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  * Support for async/await in the GTK main thread

          If you use the async/await keywords in your Gtk# app, things will now
          work as expected with the GTK main thread. For example:
    
            static async void DoWork () // called in the GTK main thread
            {
                // Do some stuff with the UI...
                label.Text = "Starting Work";
            
                // Run something asynchronously, UI is not frozen
                int res = await DoLongOperation ();
            
                // Do some more UI stuff, it'll run on the GTK main thread
                label.Text = "Work done";
            }

  * gui-thread-check profiler module
      
        This mono profiler module can be used to check if a GTK# application is
        trying to invoke gtk or gdk methods from a thread which is not the main
        GUI thread.

        To use it, run your application with the command:

          mono --profile=gui-thread-check yourapp.exe

        If the profiler is properly installed, you'll see an output like this:

          *** Running with gui-thread-check *** GUI THREAD INITIALIZED:
          *** 2861676352

        While the application is running, if the profiler detects a non-gui
        thread invoking gtk methods, it will print a warning message together
        with a stack trace. For example:

          *** GTK CALL NOT IN GUI THREAD: Widget.gtk_widget_get_parent
             Widget.get_Parent
             SomeWidget.DoSomething
             BackgroundWorker.OnDoWork
             BackgroundWorker.ProcessWorker

  * cairo: Rework the handling of native resources, to reduce memory leaks.
    In general, the caller is responsible for disposing IDisposable objects
    returned from any method.

  * cairo: Add mechanism to debug missing Dispose calls, enabled by setting a
    new MONO_CAIRO_DEBUG_DISPOSE environment variable.

  * Provide and use an XML schema definition to validate GAPI XML files.

  * Use generic collections in the generated code, in custom code and in the
    generator itself.

  * Improve handling of command-line parameters in the generator.

  * glib: Install interfaces before they are initialized, to match the behavior
    now required by glib 2.36 and above.

Changes
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  * Generate all interfaces with the "I" prefix, to match .NET coding 
    convention. For example, Scrollable is now IScrollable.
  * gdk: Remove AddClientMessageFilter method from Gdk.Display and Gdk.Global
  * cairo: Add SetSourceColor method to Cairo.Context.
  * gio: Correct return types for methods returning GList*, in various classes
  * gio: Rename Content class to ContentType and adjust method names
  * gio: Move the module-related static functions into the IOModule class,
    adjust their names and fix the return types
  * gio: Move the scheduler-related static functions into IOSchedulerJob
  * gio: Move ErrorQuark method to GioGlobal
  * gio: Create IOError class, with FromErrno and FromWin32Error methods
  * gio: Rename the Dbus class to DBus, to have consistent capitalization
  * gio: Rename all GDbus* properties to GDBus*, with correct capitalization
  * gio: Rename the DBus.AddressGet* methods to DBus.Get*
  * gio: Move static methods from Simple to SimpleAsyncResult class
  * gio: Hide GioGlobal.RegistryBackendGetType method
  * gio: Mark the ISeekable interface as consume-only
  * gio: Correct GSettings.GetStrv and SetStrv values to be string[]
  * gtk: Mark the whole Style class as obsolete
  * gtk: Fix return types for several methods: GtkCellArea.GetFocusSiblings,
    GtkMenu.GetForAttachWidget, GtkWindowGroup.ListWindows
  * gtk: Make the Group property for Radio* widgets a properly typed array
  * gtk: Fix return types for IterList* methods in WidgetPath
  * gtk: Change the second parameter in AccelMap.LookupEntry to be an out param

Bug fixes
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  * generator: Add validation check for return values that are arrays
  * cairo: Fix rectangles returned by StrokeExtents and FillExtents methods
  * cairo: Fix various text API calls to use the correct types
  * glib: Fix crash when freeing lists with elements typed as interfaces
  * gdk: Allow passing a null Gdk.Event
  * gtk: Fix return type of IRecentChooser.GetUris to an array of strings




Download
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk-sharp/2.99/gtk-sharp-2.99.1.tar.xz (1.46M)
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