As a side note, STRING probably refers to https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Strings.html which is a more OO string implementation. G_TYPE_STRING being gchararray is of more close relation with C strings (except it consists of gchars instead of chars.)
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017, 22:34 Stefan Salewski <m...@ssalewski.de> wrote: > I am just preparing a listview example for the Nim GTK3 mini tutorial. > I followed the Z-Code C example. Was not too difficult. But I got one > problem: For working with listviews, we have to provide GTypes, which > are numerical values. For C we have the macros like G_TYPE_STRING which > for my box gives currently value 64. These values seems to be not > directly supported by gobject-introspection. Seems to be no big > problem, we may query the values by g-type-from-name(). > > > https://developer.gnome.org/gobject/stable/gobject-Type-Information.html#g-type-from-name > > For G_TYPE_STRING I assumed that name is "GSTRING" which gives indeed a > non zero result from g-type-from-name(). But it is wrong. > > We can get the correct name by using g_type_name(G_TYPE_STRING). This > gives "gchararray". > > And indeed, when I provide this name to g-type-from-name() then the Nim > example works fine. > > But where should high level users find the corresponding G_TYPE names > or values? > > Or is there another way to get G_TYPE values? I assume a static list of > integers would not make much sense? > > Maybe you know how this is done in other languages with GTK bindings. > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list >
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