Re: [Vala] Bug with Gtk3 and structs

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Abderrahim Kitouni <a kitouni gmail com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 2011/10/22 Andrew Higginson <at higginson gmail com>:
> > Hi, when I compile this code:
> > http://pastebin.com/EjdvB6RU
> >
> > (Which generates this C code):
> > http://pastebin.com/ziQrEDQd
> >
> > Instead of the code retrieving the struct I put into the GtkListStore,
> > and printing "The ID", it prints out gibberish like:
> > X�X
> >
> > Why is this happening? Is it a problem with GTK3 or Vala?
>
> You need to define mystruct2 as MyStruct? (on line 16). I don't know
> whether valac can do something about this (warn, or do the right thing
> automatically) but there is probably a bug filed about this.

This is a subtle behavior because Vala produces correct code. The fact is
that gtk wants a double pointer to the struct because it actually allocates
the struct internally.

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