I've added CC to gtk-list and gtk-developers in order to make public these comments. Hope you make the same in the future. I'm working to add new objects written in Vala for GDA in the libgda-vala branch if you want to see how to implement a library and Unit Test in a C library and Autotools. http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgda 2011/12/2 Tal Liron <tal.liron@xxxxxxxxx>: > Thanks, that's good advice. Indeed, the property I am using can also access > a private field, forcing users to use the property API. > > One advantage for me in using the property API is that I'm also using Vala. > In Vala, implementing properties is ridiculously easy. > > I'm hoping in the future GI will support fields better. The project is > definitely evolving and adding features. > > On 12/02/2011 02:32 PM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > > In GdaNumeric, we added accesors to fields in the struct. > > I think you have a GObject implementation. Your way is the best: add > properties to access to fields. > > GdaNumeric is a struct with some fields easy to modify directly from > Python, like the integer ones, but the string one is not handle by > Python by default because could be very different per case. Then we > added some API to access to struct members (all), and now this struct > is considered opaque. > > For new implementations I recomend to hide struct definition in the > *.c and just use in the header: > > typedef _MyStruct MyStruct; > > This hides internal definition and forces the developer to use the > API. This way GObject Introspection will always make bindings to > modify struct fields as expected by the implementator and makes very > easy to automatically generate GIR files with the required API. > > 2011/12/2 Tal Liron <tal.liron@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Thanks! > > I solved it in my software by wrapping fields in properties. That way C code > can still access the fields directly, while Python can use set_property(). > > -Tal > > On 12/02/2011 01:18 PM, Daniel Espinosa wrote: > > No one have sent any response message. > > I've added this annotations to GdaNumeric, but GIR and Vala bindings > make no difference. Both use GdaNumeric, as declared on GDA, as a > GBoxed and use g_boxed_copy and g_boxed_free functions. > > May be this help was added but not implemented jet. > > 2011/12/2 Tal Liron <tal.liron@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hello Daniel, and sorry for writing to you directly, but I can't find a way > to respond to an archived message on the mailing list. > > Did you ever found a solution to this issue you posted? > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/2011-October/msg00049.html > > Thanks! > > -Tal > > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
