Quoting "Giuseppe Penone" <gius...@gmail.com>:
Did anybody notice that the function GTK_CLIPBOARD_SET_WITH_DATA () is missing from the bindings?<method name="set_with_data" c:identifier="gtk_clipboard_set_with_data" introspectable="0">
If you start looking into the .gir files, you'll notice loads of stuff is marked as non-introspectable. And not only in GTK+... PyGTK used to have the same problem (loads of stuff was present in the .defs file where no wrapper could be automatically generated). It did have the advantage of being able to provide overrides written in C. History has proven that to be time consuming, tedious and generally unthankful work, so PyGTK maintenance eventually slowed down almost to a complete stop (many thanks to those who continued anyway!). From what I remember reading on various places, with the gi-enabled PyGObject it was decided to: - write overrides in Python (in the hopes of attracting more contributors, which seems to slowly start paying of) - fix the underlying libraries (like GTK+ in this case) by requesting/contributing bindable API instead of pretending everything to be just fine and continue writing glue overrides in C. Getting these fixes in, reeducating C library authors to provide bindable API (or fix it yourself and contribute the patch) and generally making PyGObject+gi as pleasant to use as PyGTK used to be is going to take time though. Lot's of time. This does *not* mean we PyGTK users should sit still and wait to port our software to PyGObject+gi. That would only slow development down yet again. In short, don't be afraid to get your hands dirty :) mvg, Dieter ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
