Re: [Vala] I found a major bug

[Flavio Danesse <fdanesse gmail com>]

Another thing that does not work as expected is:

this.get_toplevel ()

This should return the main application window, or one Gtk.Window, but
returns a Gtk.Widget

2014-12-20 0:32 GMT-02:00 Flavio Danesse <fdanesse gmail com>:

> I understand, but it is logical that a get back what is asked, things like
> that are not logical fol:
>
> error: invocation of void method not allowed as expression
> this.get_property("type");
>
> In the initial example:
> this.get_allocation()
> does not work, though:
> this.get_allocated_width()
> if it works.
>
> 2014-12-19 14:01 GMT-02:00 Andre Masella <andre masella name>:
>
> Mmm, no you didn't. :-)
> > Gdk.Allocation allocation;
> > this.get_allocation(out allocation);
> >
> > This is admittedly more awkward and Gtk.Widget.get_allocation has the
> > right type signature in C to return, but this binding works too.
> >
> > On 19 December 2014 at 10:27, Flavio Danesse <fdanesse gmail com> wrote:
> > > *Hi, I just wanted to comment that I found a major bug in gtk:*
> > >
> > > error: invocation of void method not allowed as expression
> > > Gdk.Rectangle rect = this.get_allocation();
> > >                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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