Hiya, Vala n00b here, so be nice, please.
The function http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/mafw/mafw-MafwMetadata.html#mafw-metadata-first returns a GValue when given a a GHashTable and a string. That's all well and good, except Vala also tries to give it a pointer to a GValue as the third argument. As you can see, it only takes two arguments. The relevant part of mafw.vapi looks like: [CCode (cheader_filename = "libmafw/mafw.h")] public static unowned GLib.Value metadata_first (GLib.HashTable md, string key); and I'm invoking it thus: unowned GLib.Value artist = metadata_first(metadata, "artist"); unowned GLib.Value title = metadata_first(metadata, "title"); unowned GLib.Value album = metadata_first(metadata, "album-art-uri"); Which produces the following C code: GValue _tmp0_ = {0}; GValue artist; GValue _tmp1_ = {0}; GValue title; GValue _tmp2_ = {0}; GValue album; g_return_if_fail (self != NULL); g_return_if_fail (metadata != NULL); artist = (mafw_metadata_first (metadata, "artist", &_tmp0_), _tmp0_); title = (mafw_metadata_first (metadata, "title", &_tmp1_), _tmp1_); album = (mafw_metadata_first (metadata, "album-art-uri", &_tmp2_), _tmp2_); and GCC exits with the following: error: too many arguments to function 'mafw_metadata_first' [x3] So, how can I make Vala not try and pass a GValue to the non-existent third parameter of mafw_metadata_first and instead use the one given to it by mafw_metadata_first? Thanks! Best Regards, Faheem _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
