On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:46 PM, tecywiz121 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I've been working on binding chipmunk, a physics engine, for the past
> week and I've run into a bunch of snags.  Chipmunk is not a glib
> library, and it doesn't exactly get parsed well by gen-introspect but it
> does a enough of a good job to get to generating a vapi file.
>
> The naming convention used by chipmunk does not match with the glib
> convention, so my biggest problem is that not a single method was put in
> a class.
>
> My solution was to add a new property to vapigen called "belongs_to"  It
> allows a function to be moved into a different class/struct/enum.  It
> also tries to fix up the vala name by removing the name of the new type.
>
> Attached is a rather hacky patch to implement the property. I would
> really appreciate some feedback, and I'd eventually like to get the
> property included in vapigen.


I would find this feature useful as well. In the Seed bindings, for example
seed_simple_evaluate() should really become
SeedContext.simple_evaluate() in my opinion, but there's no way to
specify that in the .metadata file currently.
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