Re: [Vala] MarkupParser binding

[Andrea Del Signore <sejerpz tin it>]

Hi,

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 19:35 +0100, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/12/8 Andrea Del Signore <sejerpz tin it>:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > today I had to resolve the same problem and I think that the
> > MarkupParser bindings are wrong.
> > [...]
> > There is also another problem about the user_data field that in the
> > current bindings is wrongly assumed to be the MarkupParser instance
> > pointer but instead it is the user_data parameter passed to the
> > MarkupParserContext class.
>
> That's exactly what I meant when I said
> > As for MarkupParser, I don't see a way to fix it apart from marking
> > the delegates as has_target=false and passing the user_data manually
> > (in fact actually writing C code but compiling with valac since you
> > won't be able to use instance methods).

I missed your mail, with it I would solve my problems more quickly!

> Not very Vala-ish, but solves the problem.

I agree, it isn't very Vala-ish, but like you I prefer something that
works to something that is nice but doesn't work at all :)

> What would solve the problem a bit better is to have a
> MarkupParserContext constructor that takes multiple delegates rather
> than packing them in a struct.

Yep, can this  be included in the glib vapi like the string length or
replace methods?

> Regards,
> Abderrahim

Ciao,
        Andrea