Very nice, I managed to get something functional without that much hard work using libxml2 + gobject_class_list_properties() and some other basic gobject property introspection. Thanks Murray, Tristan On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:15 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:50 +0200, Jacob Kroon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a way to serialize GObject-derived classes into XML. I'm > > basically writing a block-diagram editor, similar to Simulink/Matlab, > > where I have a Diagram class, and diff. block classes, and I'd like to > > be able to save the diagrams to a file, so my idea is to implement a way > > to serialize the blocks and the diagram. All interesting attributes are > > implemented as GObject attributes, so if I can could implement > > block_to_xml() and diagram_to_xml() functions, things would work out > > nicely I think. Of course I would have to go the other way too, when > > loading diagrams, xml_to_block() and xml_to_diagram(). > > > > The trouble is I don't really know where to start, is this something > > that has been documented elsewhere, or does anyone know of some example > > code or ideas I could look into? > > > > My initial idea is to implement some sort of GObject serializer, which > > outputs the classname, and the same for all properties the GObject has > > registered. > > > > Any comments would be most welcome! > > You can iterate over the properties. The get_properties() function here > does that, after instantiating an object of a particular type > http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glibmm/tools/extra_defs_gen/generate_extra_defs.cc?view=markup > > You would just need to add some code to get the values of a specified > instance. > _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
