Re: [Vala] Bindings for gdkkeysyms.h

["Alexander Bokovoy" <ab altlinux org>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Dan Saul <daniel saul gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It would seem that bindings for gdkkeysyms.h seem to be missing. As a
> consequence we have to use the numbers instead eg:
>
> switch (event.keyval)
>                {
>                        case 0xff52: // GDK_Up
>                        ...
>
> This works, but of course is not ideal. Being new to vala the language
> came fast but I haven't yet tackled any api work. So as an attempt I
> created the file "gdk-keysyms.vapi" in the vapi directory and placed
> the attached contents inside. However I get the following error:
>
> SidebarList.vala:169.9-169.19: error: The name `KeySyms' does not
> exist in the context of `Gdk'
>                        case Gdk.KeySyms.Up: // GDK_Up 0xff52
>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Any thoughts?
valac --pkg gdk-keysyms
Vala doesn't read all .vapi files when compiling application. You have
to specify what subset of them needs to be included, except glib-2.0
which is included automagically.
-- 
/ Alexander Bokovoy