Re: [Vala] just a suggestion

2009-01-23 Thread Karl Lattimer
Karl, you also seem to be interested in a Writting GNOME Applications with Vala approach as I do. Would you be interested in kick start with me a parallel book with a more tutorial-alike approach? Sounds like an idea, I mean the things I'm most interested in are how to start from an idea, and

Re: [Vala] just a suggestion

2009-01-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
2009/1/23 Karl Lattimer k...@qdh.org.uk: Karl, you also seem to be interested in a Writting GNOME Applications with Vala approach as I do. Would you be interested in kick start with me a parallel book with a more tutorial-alike approach? Sounds like an idea, I mean the things I'm most

[Vala] [Wikibooks] Cover Page

2009-01-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
I've created a cover page for the book http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vala_Programming/Cover There's a list of contributors. So, if you contribute you are invited to enlist yourself. There's also a link to a page used for discussions on the book as a whole. Anyway I suggest to use also this

Re: [Vala] just a suggestion

2009-01-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:33 +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote: Pick up http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Sharp_Programming which is a featured wikibook. There is not a book like thinking in c sharp or c sharp tutorial. That one looks very nice, indeed. ___

Re: [Vala] making gstreamer sink with vala

2009-01-23 Thread Alberto Colombo
Hi, did you get my other reply? After two days of trial and error, I managed to make a (statically) registered plugin, that works in a pipeline without warnings or errors (attached). It doesn't do anything useful, though. Please let me know if you are making any progress with your sink.

[Vala] [Wikibooks] Be Bold

2009-01-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
I'd like just to remind you to Be Bold on modifications of the pages of the book. I've seen a big correction to the page Getting Started. From the history I can't see neither the author of the first version, nor the author of the correction, nor a message to justify it. Nothing even on the

[Vala] about dialog: website not clickable

2009-01-23 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Hi all, I have some fairly routine vala code to show an About dialog, including a website link. The website is supposed to be clickable, but when the program runs the link is not actually clickable. Am I missing something? How do I get a clickable website link? private void showAboutDialog

Re: [Vala] [Wikibooks] Be Bold

2009-01-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Luca Dionisi luca.dion...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen a big correction to the page Getting Started. From the history I can't see neither the author of the first version, nor the author of the correction, nor a message to justify it. Nothing even on the

Re: [Vala] about dialog: website not clickable

2009-01-23 Thread Frederik
Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: Hi all, I have some fairly routine vala code to show an About dialog, including a website link. The website is supposed to be clickable, but when the program runs the link is not actually clickable. Am I missing something? How do I get a clickable website

Re: [Vala] about dialog: website not clickable

2009-01-23 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
Frederik wrote: How do I get a clickable website link? you must set a URL hook: Thanks, that was the pointer that I needed! - Mike ___ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list

Re: [Vala] [Wikibooks] Cover Page

2009-01-23 Thread Yu Feng
It is the discussion page of the book provided by wikibook site? Yu On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 11:48 +0100, Luca Dionisi wrote: I've created a cover page for the book http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vala_Programming/Cover There's a list of contributors. So, if you contribute you are invited to

Re: [Vala] install on Ubuntu 8.10?

2009-01-23 Thread Michael Terry
Bruce Cowan also maintains a PPA for vala (and other) stuff. I use it on Ubuntu 8.10. https://launchpad.net/~bruce89/+archive/ppa -mt On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Frederik scumm_fr...@gmx.net wrote: Glen Worstell wrote: Hi all, I installed vala using synaptic and the 'hello world'

Re: [Vala] [Wikibooks] Cover Page

2009-01-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Yu Feng rainwood...@gmail.com wrote: It is the discussion page of the book provided by wikibook site? Wikibooks guidelines suggest to create such a page and to link to it from the cover. So I did. ___ Vala-list mailing

Re: [Vala] problem with GNet Connhttpeventresponse

2009-01-23 Thread jezra
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:20 PM, lariamat interfl...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Jezra Also foreach is now working with recent vala for null-terminated arrays. As you are just using and approving the gnet bindings you could post the working vapi to the mailing list or attach it to a bugzilla report as

[Vala] [Wikibooks] Discussion Page

2009-01-23 Thread Luca Dionisi
I have created some content in the discussion page of the whole book, which is the one linked to in the Cover page. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Vala_Programming/Discussion_Page I tried to explain some possible ways to use that page. Every contributor to the book is warmly invited to watch that

[Vala] Feature-Question: Compiler-API / AST of vala exposed to the programming language?

2009-01-23 Thread Hans Baier
Hi, I didnt look into the details of vala, but what is of great value (especially for tool support) is a standard compiler API and standard AST form of vala code so that every vala program can parse its own code and modify it. This is essential for IDE tools like automated refactoring and code

[Vala] Vala generated .gir file incompatible with g-ir.

2009-01-23 Thread Yu Feng
Hi Jurge, I was trying to run g-ir-compiler with a vala generated .gir file. Apparently there are two issues: 1. the default file name generated by vala differ from the namespace name, and g-ir-compiler complains about this. 2. g-ir-compiler expects a value for the members of enumerations