[Vala] Get pointer to a function from a string with its name

2014-08-13 Thread rastersoft
Hi all: I'm developing a proof of concept and I need to get a pointer to a function given its name in a string. I want to do something like Gtk.Builder, where you store in the XML a callback name, and in runtime it search the executable and gets a pointer to that function. In C it seems

Re: [Vala] Get pointer to a function from a string with its name

2014-08-13 Thread Evan Nemerson
On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 22:30 +0200, rastersoft wrote: Hi Evan: Thanks, but that isn't what I need. That is only for loadable modules, No it isn't. Pass null as the first argument to GLib.Module.open. From the documentation: the name of the file containing the module, or NULL to