On 29/08/2012 22:39, Horace Abenga wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm planning on writing a comprehensive GTK+ programming using Vala tutorial
> that will loosely follow the classic GTK+ tutorial
> (http://developer.gnome.org/gtk-tutorial/2.90/).
>
> I've done the first four chapters, which can be found (i
On 30/08/12 11:13, Axel FILMORE wrote:
> On 29/08/2012 22:39, Horace Abenga wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm planning on writing a comprehensive GTK+ programming using Vala tutorial
>> that will loosely follow the classic GTK+ tutorial
>> (http://developer.gnome.org/gtk-tutorial/2.90/).
>>
>> I've done
Thanks for the help. Key and value both need to accept null, so I think
"string?" is required. The issue wasn't value being null but
rather that it referenced invalid/freed memory. I usually got two or
three random letters instead of my input string along with an occasional
"glibc detected *** doub
Last year there was some discussion on the list about Vala's .gir support
(https://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2011-April/msg3.html). Jürg
said that Vala only reads the XML (.gir files) and not the .typelib files.
My question is, how should a developer deal with a situation where a li
Thanks all for the comments, will definitely incorporate them.
I will try to work fast, maybe add two new chapters per week if I don't get
swamped at work.
On 30 August 2012 13:23, Thomas Jollans wrote:
> On 30/08/12 11:13, Axel FILMORE wrote:
> > On 29/08/2012 22:39, Horace Abenga wrote:
> >>
On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 21:59 -0007, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Last year there was some discussion on the list about Vala's .gir
> support
> (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/vala-list/2011-April/msg3.html).
> Jürg said that Vala only reads the XML (.gir files) and not
> the .typelib files.
>
> My que
Thanks for the quick reply, Evan. To answer some of your questions:
Evan Nemerson wrote:
Sometimes you may have to install an extra package, but the GIRs should
be available.
I'll probably open a ticket with Ubuntu about this.
You should pass the pkg-config names of whatever dependencies you
On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 23:13 -0007, Jim Nelson wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply, Evan. To answer some of your questions:
>
> Evan Nemerson wrote:
> > Sometimes you may have to install an extra package, but the GIRs
> > should
> > be available.
>
>
> I'll probably open a ticket with Ubuntu
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Evan Nemerson wrote:
Assuming you're talking about GLib, GObject, and Gio, Debian/Ubuntu
already distribute the relevant GIRs. They're in
libgirepository1.0-dev.
I figured that out five minutes ago. Thanks. B-)
Sorry, what I wrote is /really/ misleading. val
