Hi all, It's my first post on this list, as I've just decided to experiment vala.
My idea is to build a software around a C library. But, this library is in the pure C spirit: - opaque public types - return values via parameters - huge mix with value and references I tried to initiate a .vapi, but it is quite complex for a newbie like me. So, I'm looking for some help, and post here. I think I have two dificulties that I can summarize with the following code: /* API */ typedef void*lib_type_t; void init(lib_type_t *p); void get(lib_type_t p, char **val); /* USE */ ... lib_type_t myType; char *val; lib_init(&myType); lib_get(myType, &val); As I said, I did initial VAPI mapping, but I encounter difficulties. How to declare something to map lib_type_t? How to play with lib_type_t variable, sometime passed by value and sometime by reference? How to receive string result value passed as parameter? I tried: string val = null; MyLib.get(p, val); But vala complains about passing reference and value. I'm quite sure my questions are trivial, but it is hard to find the rigth example for a beginer. I will appreciate any pointer to an existing .vapi solving such problems. Or a well finished .vapi :-) The library I'm trying to bind: http://quvi.sourceforge.net/ API: http://quvi.sourceforge.net/html/quvi_8h.html Example: http://quvi.sourceforge.net/html/simple_8c-example.html Best regards, -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] -=- mailto:[email protected] -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
