Re: Started adding GObject signals to gnome-class

[Niko Matsakis <niko alum mit edu>]

Er, that was supposed to be: *big* +1 from me =)

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017, at 11:27 AM, Niko Matsakis wrote:
> I've been wanting to integrate the gnome-class stuff with glib-rs -- but
> +1 from me! Just haven't had any time to investigate :(
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017, at 11:06 AM, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 09:44 +0300, Sebastian Dröge wrote:
> > > This is good timing BTW, I was going to write a full example of
> > > GObject subclasses with interfaces implementations, signals, action
> > > signals, properties, virtual methods, gobject-introspection support
> > > next week. Using the glib-rs infrastructure but otherwise manual.
> > > Goal would be to have a baseline / template to what gnome-class
> > > should be able to generate, to have it all written out and functional
> > > so that also someone not knowing the implementation details of
> > > GObject can start working on that.
> >
> > See, I love it when this happens:
> >
> > Federico: "hi, please help me make fire by rubbing sticks"
> >
> > Sebastian: "here, have this high-tech oven instead"
> >
> > Having this example of all the GObjects bells and whistles used from
> > Rust would be *VERY* helpful for the code generator!
> >
> > I will definitely start looking at gstreamer-rs and the gtk-rs
> > infrastructure.  From librsvg I've only interacted with cairo-rs, which
> > doesn't use GIR, and a bit of the glib::translate stuff - none of the
> > fancy GObject wrappers.
> >
> > I love the idea of having gobject_gen!() also generate Rust entry
> > points that look just like what gtk-rs would have.
> >
> > Thanks for all the suggestions; it is very encouraging to know where to
> > steal examples of use :)
> >
> > Ideally we would also be able to emit GIR information directly - since
> > the procedural macro can basically do anything in addition to emitting
> > tokens, maybe we can have it spit a cratename.gir/typelib on the
> > side...
> >
> >   Federico
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