Re: [Vala] Genie, subclassing and some help!

[Andrew <rugby471 gmail com>]

On 25/06/10 09:00, Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2010/6/25 Andrew <rugby471 gmail com>:
> > Thankyou for your help.
> >
> > I tried the first method but it didn't work (it is a Gtk object and so I
> > doubted it would due to what you said above). I then tried to do the
> > second method but I didn't really understand what to do.
> >
> > Could you do an example with this
> > http://people.canonical.com/~ted/libappindicator/current/AppIndicator.html#app-indicator-new
> > ?
>
> Take a look at the properties section [1], the "construct only"
> properties cannot be changed afterwards and so need to be passed to
> Object(...) if you don't want the default value. The other is
> icon-name (which becomes icon_name in Vala/Genie).
>
> What we notice here is that the "usually" part in my past message
> doesn't work : category is passed to the creation method as an enum
> but is stored in the property as a string. I'm not sure how to do the
> mapping, you may need to look at the source of app_indicator_new
>
> HTH,
> Abderrahim
>
> [1] http://people.canonical.com/~ted/libappindicator/current/AppIndicator.html#AppIndicator.properties

Sorry maybe I didn't explain, I am using Genie for the VERY FIRST time
and so what you are saying doesn't really mean anything to me.

Could you give me an example that I could learn off of?

-- 
Andrew