[Vala] Fwd: Hildon support in Vala for Fremantle

[pHilipp Zabel <philipp zabel gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Andrew Flegg <andrew bleb org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:11, Thomas Perl <thp thpinfo com> wrote:
> > I want to use Vala for a more efficient rewrite of feedhandler, and I
> > would like to use some widgets from the Fremantle version of Hildon. As
> > you are the maintainer of the vala package, I though I could ask you for
> > help :)
>
> I've CCed Philipp, as he was looking at this - and has even posted a
> first draft of updated bindings to the Vala list.
>
> Philipp - how's your work been going?

Hi Andrew, Thomas,

forwarding to vala-list to get more eyes on the hildon patch.

There are still two big open question for me:
- How to avoid the manual steps during VAPI generation
 (it seems Thomas had to face the same problems as I, below)
- Where should the hildon specific gtk+-2.0 modifications go?
 A patched gtk+-2.0.vapi that is only carried in the maemo vala packages?
 Or somehow added to hildon-1.vapi, if that is possible at all?

Right now, I'm happily using the attached patch to vala git together with
a (manually...) patched gtk+-2.0.vapi to build an application that uses at
least the default Fremantle features (stackable windows, view menus,
picker buttons, banners, notes, etc.)

Any hints on how to proceed?

regards
Philipp

> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> > I've played around with vapigen and vala-gen-introspect myself, but have
> > am now stuck with these error messages:
> >
> > [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~/yo/test] > vapigen --library hildon-1
> > ~/vala/vapi/packages/hildon-1/hildon-1.gi
> > hildon-1.gi:0.0-0.0: error: `Hildon.CheckButton' already contains a
> > definition for `toggled'
> > hildon-1.gi:0.0-0.0: error: `Hildon.PickerButton' already contains a
> > definition for `value_changed'
> > hildon-1.gi:0.0-0.0: error: `Hildon.TouchSelector' already contains a
> > definition for `has_multiple_selection'
> > Generation failed: 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> >
> > I then simply commented out the duplicate definitions in the .gi file
> > and got this (removed duplicate lines):
> >
> > [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~/yo/test] > vapigen --library hildon-1
> > ~/vala/vapi/packages/hildon-1/hildon-1.gi
> > error: The type name `Hildon.SizeType' could not be found
> > error: The type name `Hildon.UIMode' could not be found
> > error: The type name `key_t' could not be found
> > error: The type name `Hildon.GtkInputMode' could not be found
> > Generation failed: 31 error(s), 0 warning(s)
> >
> > And here I gave up :) FYI, I had to add "--enable-vapigen" to the
> > configure call in debian/rules to get vapigen + vala-gen-introspect in
> > the 'vala' package. I then followed the instructions on
> >
> >  http://live.gnome.org/Vala/Bindings
> >
> > and used vapi/packages/hildon-1 from git://git.gnome.org/vala
>
> --
> Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew bleb org  |  http://www.bleb.org/

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