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From: pancake < pancake youterm com> Date: March 12, 2009 9:21:07 AM GMT+01:00 To: Adi Roiban < adi roiban ro> Subject: Re: [Vala] Replacing "void method ( out Type)" with "Type method()"
An atribute to define a method as the one to get a string representation would be cool.This is.. In java we have the toString() one, but we can just asign to tostring attribute for a method in a class or just at class level in the vapi file as:[(CCode tostring="get_text")]We can the also define default methods for other types like toint="get_size"What do you think about this?On Mar 11, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Adi Roiban <adi roiban ro> wrote:Hi,
I have these 2 examples.
1 - Converting a GLib.Date to GLib.Time
Now we have:
GLib.Date date = GLib.Date();
GLib.Time time;
date.to_time(out time);
time.to_string()
I would like to be able to do: date.to_time.to_string();
2 - Getting a text from Gtk.TexBuffer
Now we have:
Gtk.TextBuffer buf = new Gtk.TextBuffer;
Gtk.Iter star;
Gtk.Iter end;
string text;
buf.get_start_iter(start);
buf.get_end_iter(end);
text = buf.get_text(start,end,true);
I would like to be able to do: text = buf.text;
Right now there is a Gtk.TextBuffe.text property but it's not working:
error: too few arguments to function ‘gtk_text_buffer_get_text'
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Now I could rename the Gtk.TextBuffer class in the gtk+ VAPI file and
implement my own Gtk.TextBuffer class inheriting the renamed class.
Is there a way to modify a VAPI file to fix this problem and give us
this syntactic sugaring ?
Maybe there is a way to write small functions inside a VAPI file for
helping VALA with the code generation.
Many thanks!
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Adi Roiban
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