Re: [Vala] writing a vapi

[valamaillist <valamaillist pellitteri eu>]

I have the same problem, with any doc it's impossible. I think that the 
best way for not gobject libs is to write an gobject adapter.

> I need to write bindings for c, non gobject library, but find it 
> impossible to get enough information. The tutorial 
> (http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Bindings) is limited and mainly about 
> gobject based code. The main source of knowledge remains the available 
> bindings, but without a reference of the tags and code decorations 
> they are of limited help also :(
> Most of them a self-explanatory like cheader_filename and 
> lower_case_cprefix but for
> type_signature
> IntegerType (rank = 6)
> marshaller_type_name
> instance_pos
> [IntegerType (rank = 6)]
> and (many?) others even Google cannot possibly help...
>
> Is it possible to provide a list of all code decorations?And overall 
> document the vapi mechanic, right now it is magic.
>
> Im also interested to what extend the -custom.vala filie and the .vapi 
> are treated as vala code?
> In other words
> What can and cannot be present in the vapi?
>
> ...I see there are declarations but can it contain code? (Guess not 
> but have to ask)
>
> 10x
> MihailNaydenov
>
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