Re: [Vala] self-less delegates

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi Steve,

On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 17:12 -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
> In any case, in trying to learn the ins and outs of vapi, I ran into a
> problem with delegates.  The C library in question uses a registration
> function,
>
> class_new(char* name, void* (*)(void) new_method);
>
> So, you register your class and register your new_method function for
> that class as a callback.  The library then instantiates your class
> whenever it wants.
>
> Anyways, The new_method function does not take any parameters.
> However, in trying to use "delegate" to create this callback, I found
> that it always seems to add an argument, gpointer *self.  This makes
> some sense for most callbacks, but in this case the callback does not
> take any parameters.

Use the `static' modifier when declaring the delegate, this prevents the
generation of the user_data / target_object parameter.

Jürg
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Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>