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[gtk-list] Re: A type system for high-level interfaces
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maurizio Vitale)
Tue Aug 26 01:40:17 1997
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
From: Maurizio Vitale <Maurizio.Vitale@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 26 Aug 1997 07:40:05 +0200
In-Reply-To: Marius Vollmer's message of "25 Aug 1997 21:04:52 +0200"
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Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> To explain, what I have in mind for enumerations: You could write this
> code to create a toplevel window
>
> (gtk-window-new 'toplevel)
>
> The 'toplevel argument is essentially a string that has to be strcmped
> against all the literals of the GtkWindowType enumeration, at
> run-time. The stub for gtk-window-new knows that the argument is a
> GtkWindowType enumeration and calls a Gtk function to obtain its type
> id, much like gtk_object_get_type can be used to get the type id of
> GtkObjects. From that type id, all necessary information about the
> enumeration can be obtained.
Don't know much about what you're trying to do, but why not making
toplevel a scheme symbol whose value is the integer corresponding to
the C enumeration tag?
Making those symbols part of a gtk module (or prefixed by gtk:) would
help alleviating the name pollution problem.
-mav
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