Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-17 Thread Al Thomas
> - Original Message - > From: jezra > Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 17:41 > Subject: Re: [Vala] The future of Vala > For me as a vala user, the biggest frustration I have, and the > number 1 reason I would NOT consider vala for a future programming > project is

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-13 Thread Al Thomas
> - Original Message - > From: Victor Aurélio Santos > Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 15:55 > Subject: Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings > Now... > [CCode (cname = "connect_port", has_target = false)] > public delegate void DescriptorConnectPort(Handle?

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-13 Thread Al Thomas
> - Original Message - > From: Victor Aurélio Santos > Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 3:22 > Subject: Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings >[CCode (has_target = false)] >public delegate void DescriptorConnectPort(Handle? instance, ulong > port, ref

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-11 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Timm Bäder <m...@baedert.org> > Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2016, 17:43 > Subject: Re: [Vala] The future of Vala > On 11.09, Al Thomas wrote: >> Anyone with GNOME commit access can add to the Vala repository. >> So for these

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-11 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Victor Aurélio Santos > Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2016, 17:08 > Subject: Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings > The valac complaints: > LADSPA.vapi:52.9-52.41: error: unexpected declaration >public delegate void

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-11 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Timm Bäder > Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2016, 16:30 > Subject: Re: [Vala] The future of Vala > Basically, I'm not saying that Jürg or Luca need to > even work on valac, but a patch review now and then would already help > a lot. And some

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-11 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Evan Nemerson > Sent: Saturday, 10 September 2016, 21:44 > Subject: Re: [Vala] The future of Vala > Chris Daley has been working on moving a version of Valadate into the > Vala tree (see ) so tests

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-10 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Victor Aurélio Santos > Sent: Saturday, 10 September 2016, 23:57 > Subject: Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings > I'm trying to use plugins from vala, not to write! > I'm stuck at writing the vapi file, most specifically at the Descriptor > struct. Take a look at

Re: [Vala] LADSPA bindings

2016-09-10 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Victor Aurélio Santos > Sent: Saturday, 10 September 2016, 23:10 > Subject: [Vala] LADSPA bindings > I'm trying to create LADSPA bindings but no luck. > I'm stuck at Descriptor's function pointers, can any one help me with this ?

Re: [Vala] The future of Vala

2016-09-09 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: rastersoft > Sent: Friday, 9 September 2016, 22:50 > Subject: Re: [Vala] The future of Vala > I was hoping to see at least one answer to this, but now I'm really > scared. I really love Vala, so the perspective of missing it is really

Re: [Vala] query

2016-09-09 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Flavio Danesse > Sent: Friday, 9 September 2016, 22:45 > Subject: [Vala] query > As I do to get the permissions on a file? > I'm doing a code editor , I wonder if there is a library that allows to > obtain the classes, methods and

Re: [Vala] Array as big as an enum

2016-08-31 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: rastersoft > Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2016, 18:51 > Subject: Re: [Vala] Array as big as an enum > > Even more: it would be great to be > able to access to the enums as strings too. You can already. To go from enum value to

Re: [Vala] Array as big as an enum

2016-08-31 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Evan Nemerson > Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2016, 17:11 > Subject: Re: [Vala] Array as big as an enum > > On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 23:47 +0200, rastersoft wrote: >> Sorry, I found how to do that: >> >> int[] blah = new int[LAST_ELEMENT]; >

Re: [Vala] Problem with valadoc at valadate

2016-08-16 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: rastersoft > Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 13:14 > Subject: [Vala] Problem with valadoc at valadate > > First, thanks for the people who made the mirror of valadoc at valadate. > Unfortunately there is a little problem: every time I

Re: [Vala] Writing VAPI: How to call struct member?

2016-08-08 Thread Al Thomas
> From: "mar...@saepia.net" >Sent: Monday, 8 August 2016, 13:49 >Subject: [Vala] Writing VAPI: How to call struct member? > >I am writing VAPI to the Java Native Interface. This is very interesting because it would allow Vala libraries to provide fast supporting functions

Re: [Vala] How small can you go with Vala? Was: Just a news I've read about popularity langage

2016-07-22 Thread Al Thomas
From: Dr. Michael Lauer Sent: Friday, 22 July 2016, 15:42 Subject: Re: [Vala] Just a news I've read about popularity langage > As an embedded system engineer I see huge potential using Vala in embedded > Linux, it has not the runtime drawback of python and

Re: [Vala] Marketing/Documentation, was Just a news I've read about popularity langage

2016-07-22 Thread Al Thomas
From: rastersoft To: vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Friday, 22 July 2016, 15:06 Subject: Re: [Vala] Just a news I've read about popularity langage URL, please? My understanding is the "new vala documentation page"

Re: [Vala] Throughts/Reviews of "GNOME 3 Application Development Beginner's Guide"

2016-07-21 Thread Al Thomas
From: Adam Tauno Williams Sent: Thursday, 21 July 2016, 15:30 Subject: [Vala] Throughts/Reviews of "GNOME 3 Application Development Beginner's Guide" I have developed in a variety of platforms and languages;  but I am interested in speeding up my

Re: [Vala] Equivalent for sqlitebck (sqlite backup)

2016-07-19 Thread Al Thomas
From: Adam Tauno Williams Sent: Tuesday, 19 July 2016, 19:45 Subject: [Vala] Equivalent for sqlitebck (sqlite backup) But I'm stuck on an equivalent for the Python module sqlitebck. sqlitebck wraps the SQLite backup/restore procedures. The applications

Re: [Vala] GLib.Menu subclass

2016-06-29 Thread Al Thomas
From: Chris Daley To: Ondrej Tuma Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2016, 15:58 Subject: Re: [Vala] GLib.Menu subclass Indeed, it should have a more meaningful error. Don't forget to file a bug report! I have seen this behaviour with some

Re: [Vala] getting started with vala and glade

2016-06-27 Thread Al Thomas
From: Luc Chante Sent: Monday, 27 June 2016, 11:36 Subject: Re: [Vala] getting started with vala and glade I think it would be a good start to use gtk templates. So you can use your ui file and create the ApplicationWindow by it's constructor (which takes an

Re: [Vala] getting started with vala and glade

2016-06-26 Thread Al Thomas
From: Chris Bare Subject: [Vala] getting started with vala and glade I have a very simple vala program that is trying to load a glade ui file. The window appears briefly, but then the program exits without error. What am I missing? You need to add the

Re: [Vala] Genie Language Questions

2016-06-26 Thread Al Thomas
From: truck Subject: [Vala] Genie Language Questions I would like to get started with the Genie Language. Information is sparse--so sparse, I don't feel confident trying to do anything with it. The main documentation is the

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-22 Thread Al Thomas
w64/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-no-export-1.0.pc [/code] The problem identified from the link below was one version of pkg-config wasn'tfinding the right path. You could also try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to just /mingw64/lib/pkgconfi

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-21 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 16:53 Subject: Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" sorry, I installed gcc/pkgconfig/gobject now $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc $ pacman -S pkg-config This

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-21 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 16:53 Subject: Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" sorry, I installed gcc/pkgconfig/gobject now $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc $ pacman -S pkg-config $ pacman

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-21 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 15:56 Subject: Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" to delete all possible things in old Msys, I run $ export

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-21 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2016, 6:49 Subject: Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" $ file $(which valac) /opt/windows_32/vala-my-build/bin/valac.exe: PE32 executable for MS Windows (console)

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-20 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Monday, 20 June 2016, 16:08 Subject: Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" so what is the possible solution to find out which 32 and 64 bits DLLs are conflictive? According to this

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-20 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Monday, 20 June 2016, 4:18 Subject: Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" currently, the following command line creates EXE file in my msys without problem as Dmitry says [quote] $ valac

[Vala] 20160616 Documentation Sprint Finished - Another?

2016-06-16 Thread Al Thomas
Hi, The documentation sprint organised for today is now over. I think all participants agreed it was very successful. Changes were made to the Vala home page, about installing Vala on different platforms, updating the tools page with more build tools and supported IDEs, updating the headings

[Vala] 1 hour until Vala documentation sprint

2016-06-16 Thread Al Thomas
Hi, Join us on irc://irc.gnome.org/vala at 16:00UTC The purpose of the sprint ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Community/Doc_sprints ) is to: - Update out of date information - Improving signposting of and navigation to significant content The main audiences for the updates are:

Re: [Vala] error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)

2016-06-16 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2016, 14:02 Subject: [Vala] error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error) My compiled valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" any hints to trace what is the problem? 1. I

Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

2016-06-15 Thread Al Thomas
From: oyster Sent: Wednesday, 15 June 2016, 16:42 Subject: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)" I am using mingw + msys on win7 64bits. The gcc can compile to produce EXE file, and pkg-config can run no problem

[Vala] Suggestions and editors needed - wiki documentation sprint 16:00UTC Thursday 16 June on #vala IRC

2016-06-14 Thread Al Thomas
Hi All, Chris Daley on IRC ( irc://irc.gnome.org/vala ) has suggested the great idea of a documentation sprint ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Community/Doc_sprints ). The purpose of the sprint is to: - Update out of date information - Improving signposting of and navigation to

Re: [Vala] Use rust [was: Seeking for Vala programmer]

2016-06-14 Thread Al Thomas
From: Daogang Sent: Tuesday, 14 June 2016, 13:58 Subject: Re: [Vala] Seeking for Vala programmer can consider rust lang? i think it is promissing. An advantage of Vala is it has first class bindings to a large number of excellent projects, e.g. GStreamer,

Re: [Vala] How to set custom free function for an array?

2016-06-12 Thread Al Thomas
From: "mar...@saepia.net" Sent: Sunday, 12 June 2016, 18:39 Subject: [Vala] How to set custom free function for an array? I am struggling to properly handle jack_get_ports ( http://jackaudio.org/files/docs/html/group__PortSearching.html). It returns const char

Re: [Vala] xcb.vapi bugs

2016-06-10 Thread Al Thomas
From: Ulink Sent: Friday, 10 June 2016, 10:42 Subject: [Vala] xcb.vapi bugs don't know where to send vapi bug reports, xcb.vapi is carried within the Vala project:https://git.gnome.org/browse/vala/tree/vapi/xcb.vapi So please post patches to Vala

Re: [Vala] valadoc.org online again, but search not working

2016-06-07 Thread Al Thomas
From: Daniel Espinosa Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 2:01 Subject: Re: [Vala] valadoc.org online again, but search not working If valadoc uses vapi files why GIR then? Valadoc is a flexible tool that can extract documentation from multiple sources.The advantage of

Re: [Vala] GXml 0.10.0 Released

2016-05-26 Thread Al Thomas
From: Günther Wutz To: vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2016, 20:32 Subject: Re: [Vala] GXml 0.10.0 Released Is there somewhere a documentation for GXml? I tried to compile it myself but i am stuck with an error "failed to load driver". That will

Re: [Vala] Extended floating types

2016-05-24 Thread Al Thomas
the constant to be a float128_t.Not sure how to handle that. Also I haven't looked in to which library provides float128_t so the header probably won't be correct. Al On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 11:16 AM Al Thomas <astav...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: ben <iofel...@gmail.com>

Re: [Vala] Extended floating types

2016-05-24 Thread Al Thomas
From: ben Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 16:01 Subject: Re: [Vala] Extended floating types This does not work. The C code has: typedef float float128_t; Try: [SimpleType][CCode(has_type_id = false, default_value = "0")]public struct float128_t {} The

Re: [Vala] Extended floating types

2016-05-24 Thread Al Thomas
From: Guillaume Poirier-Morency Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 3:26 Subject: Re: [Vala] Extended floating types It's possible to declare these types if you need to use them. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Manual/Attributes#FloatingType_Att

Re: [Vala] Trap for the unwary or incorrect code?

2016-05-21 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Andy Lees > Sent: Saturday, 21 May 2016, 14:56 > Subject: [Vala] Trap for the unwary or incorrect code? > > If I have the following code, or similar: > void main (string[] args) { > uint ui = 2; > int i = -3; > if (i < ui) { >

Re: [Vala] compiler crash with delegates

2016-05-17 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Matthias Berndt > Sent: Tuesday, 17 May 2016, 23:03 > Subject: [Vala] compiler crash with delegates > > I've written some code that crashes the compiler: > > class Foo { > public delegate void del(T t); > public del bla() { >

Re: [Vala] Vapi bindings and a weird C-pattern

2016-05-14 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Daniel Brendle > Sent: Sunday, 15 May 2016, 0:52 > Subject: [Vala] Vapi bindings and a weird C-pattern > > I want to write VAPI bindings for liborient [0]. For reference this is: https://github.com/dam2k/liborient/blob/master/include/liborient/liborient.h > A

Re: [Vala] Getting all the symbols from my code

2016-05-07 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Dmitry Golovin > Sent: Saturday, 7 May 2016, 9:01 > Subject: [Vala] Getting all the symbols from my code > > I want to have a list of all the symbols from my code. > > First I create a CodeContext, then I add all the external packages and source > files, then visit

Re: [Vala] gir introspection problem

2016-04-01 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Brian Grooman > Sent: Monday, 11 January 2016, 23:21 > Subject: [Vala] gir introspection problem > > I've also looked through the code to see if I could figure out a proposed > patch, but I don't know the source code very well.

Re: [Vala] How to properly define struct in manually written VAPI?

2016-03-02 Thread Al Thomas
> From: "mar...@saepia.net" >Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2016, 16:08 >Subject: Re: [Vala] How to properly define struct in manually written VAPI? > >thank you for suggestions. I'll try to implement them. > >But should I keep it as struct or rather compact class? As a struct. A

Re: [Vala] How to properly define struct in manually written VAPI?

2016-03-02 Thread Al Thomas
From: "mar...@saepia.net" Sent: Wednesday, 2 March 2016, 10:19 Subject: [Vala] How to properly define struct in manually written VAPI? I need to write VAPI for jansson JSON library. I have already started ( https://github.com/akheron/jansson/pull/273) and

Re: [Vala] string.to_long vs long.parse

2016-02-11 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Andy Lees > Sent: Thursday, 11 February 2016, 4:58 > Subject: [Vala] string.to_long vs long.parse > > I note that string.to_long is deprecated, but that the replacement > long.parse has reduced functionality. Using to_long, I can have

Re: [Vala] Error with OptionEntry and unicode string.

2016-02-10 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Walter Valenti > Sent: Wednesday, 10 February 2016, 11:14 > Subject: [Vala] Error with OptionEntry and unicode string. > > If i call "-n" with a ascii string, it works, but with a unicode > string > I've got an error: > > ./par

Re: [Vala] Using TestCase class: assert (this is Object) fails in method, but not in constructor

2016-02-04 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Felipe Lavratti > Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2016, 20:18 > Subject: [Vala] Using TestCase class: assert (this is Object) fails in > method, but not in constructor > > Have a look at this code: > > public class Tests : Object { >

Re: [Vala] glib-2.0 - glib-2.0.vapi mismatch bug: TestFixtureFunc vs TestFunc

2016-02-04 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - > From: Felipe Lavratti > Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2016, 0:21 > Subject: Re: [Vala] glib-2.0 - glib-2.0.vapi mismatch bug: TestFixtureFunc > vs TestFunc > > The thing is, glib 2.44 _does uses_ the GTestFixtureFunc type, but the >

Re: [Vala] Testing framework

2016-01-08 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Chris Daley > Sent: Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 1:16 > Subject: Re: [Vala] Testing framework > > I've done some thinking about this over the last couple of months and used > the holiday period to finish off a few things, namely a port of Gherkin to > Vala. You can

Re: [Vala] interaction of parentheses and string template interpolation via the @ sign

2015-12-27 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Dan Hitt > Sent: Friday, 25 December 2015, 19:17 > Subject: [Vala] interaction of parentheses and string template interpolation > via the @ sign > > ... in the first place was i had something more complicated, >@("a: $a\n" + > "b: $b\n" + > "c:

Re: [Vala] How to connect to signal if there's a property with the same name?

2015-12-10 Thread Al Thomas
bindings. Al > >m. > > >2015-12-10 16:29 GMT+01:00 Al Thomas <astav...@yahoo.co.uk>: >>Rename your property as 'is_closed', e.g. >> >>if ( connection.is_closed ) { } >> >>Otherwise I don't know. >> >>Al ___

Re: [Vala] How to connect to signal if there's a property with the same name?

2015-12-10 Thread Al Thomas
> From: "mar...@saepia.net" > Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2015, 11:51 > Subject: [Vala] How to connect to signal if there's a property with the same > name? > > I need to connect to "closed" signal of GDBusConnection, but because > there > is a property with the same name,

Re: [Vala] Vala plugin for MonoDevelop

2015-12-05 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Gottfried F. Zojer > Sent: Saturday, 5 December 2015, 12:21 > Subject: [Vala] Vala plugin for MonoDevelop > > Just wondering if anyone is using vala plugin within monodevelop IDE on a > Raspberry 2. > > Any feedback welcome I came across Atom editor the other day.

Re: [Vala] Issues will vala and pulse vapi

2015-11-22 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Evan Nemerson > Sent: Sunday, 22 November 2015, 3:54 > Subject: Re: [Vala] Issues will vala and pulse vapi > > On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 20:48 -0600, Aaron Paden wrote: >> Right, the code compiles, but the linker fails because of the >> unresolved symbols. I didn't

Re: [Vala] help with writting vapi...

2015-11-22 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Matrix > Sent: Sunday, 22 November 2015, 8:07 > Subject: [Vala] help with writting vapi... > > i'm writting hiredis vala's binding.. > > here is a function like this: > > redisContext *redisConnectWithTimeout(const char *ip, int port, const > struct timeval

Re: [Vala] Issues will vala and pulse vapi

2015-11-22 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Aaron Paden > Sent: Sunday, 22 November 2015, 2:48 > Subject: Re: [Vala] Issues will vala and pulse vapi >> From an object oriented design point of view your SinkSoureList >> class is doing too much. Initialisation should be done elsewhere >> and I think it is

Re: [Vala] idea for vala performance optimization

2015-11-21 Thread Al Thomas
> > From: Michele Dionisio >Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2015, 14:13 >Subject: Re: [Vala] idea for vala performance optimization > >It is true the gcc nested function does not manage any reference counting >to the object or manage any

Re: [Vala] Issues will vala and pulse vapi

2015-11-21 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Aaron Paden > Sent: Saturday, 21 November 2015, 0:17 > Subject: [Vala] Issues will vala and pulse vapi > > So I was asking around IRC (both channels) about why a personal > project[1] I was working on was generating a non-existent >

Re: [Vala] Accessing properties of a Map.Entry from a read-only Gee map causes compiler warning

2015-11-21 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Nicolas Laplante > Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2015, 19:33 > Subject: [Vala] Accessing properties of a Map.Entry from a read-only Gee map > causes compiler warning > > foreach (Map.Entry entry in > transactions_by_date.entries) { >

Re: [Vala] Help with libgda

2015-11-15 Thread Al Thomas
> From: Noe Nieto > Sent: Friday, 13 November 2015, 22:47 > Subject: Re: [Vala] Help with libgda > > These are the vapi files that contain gda in their name: > > $ find /usr | grep -P vapi$ | grep gda > /usr/share/vala/vapi/gdadata-5.0.vapi >

Re: [Vala] No foreach through HashMap<string, string> ?

2015-09-07 Thread Al Thomas
> > From: Gilzad Hamuni >Sent: Monday, 7 September 2015, 18:10 >Subject: [Vala] No foreach through HashMap ? > >I'm not sure if I've read it somewhere already, so I have to ask again >(sorry). Isn't it possible to iterate though a

Re: [Vala] Colors in valac output

2015-09-03 Thread Al Thomas
From: rastersoft Sent: Thursday, 3 September 2015, 15:33 Subject: [Vala] Colors in valac output Is it possible to enable the use of colors in the vala compiler? It would be very handy if the 'Warning' texts are marked in yellow, and the 'Error' ones in red,

Re: [Vala] Help with libgda

2015-08-26 Thread Al Thomas
OK I think you might be there, but just need to clear a few things up. Firstly, after your last email I did start to think why install in /opt on a Fedora system.Maybe that was why your pkg-config  showed the old 5.2.2 instead of 5.2.4 whenyou built 5.2.4 Secondly check how many VAPIs are being

Re: [Vala] Help with libgda

2015-08-26 Thread Al Thomas
- Original Message - From: Noe Nieto nni...@noenieto.com Cc: Vala vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Tuesday, 25 August 2015, 20:14 Subject: Re: [Vala] Help with libgda Just for the record. This is what I did all this to compile libgda 6.0 with vala bindings on Fedora 22. sudo dnf

Re: [Vala] Help with libgda

2015-08-24 Thread Al Thomas
A lot of distributions package development files in a separate package. For Fedora these are usually suffixed -devel and Ubuntu -dev. From the list you've provided I can't see libgda-devel By issuing the command: repoquery --list --releasever 22 libgda-devel you can see there is a

Re: [Vala] Treating a uint as a reference type?

2015-07-30 Thread Al Thomas
From: Alan Manuel Gloria almkg...@gmail.com Semantically, an Entity is a reference to a row in an entity component system; it just happens to be implemented using uint. This kind of sounds like referential integrity rules in a relational database. I presume you not using a database for

Re: [Vala] Simple filewalker code. Comments?

2015-07-28 Thread Al Thomas
are addressing and whether your question piques their interest. The larger the community the more chance of getting someone's interest and they will then take the time to write a response. Vala certainly has a smaller community than Python. On 07/27/2015 12:57 PM, Al Thomas wrote: From

Re: [Vala] Simple filewalker code. Comments?

2015-07-27 Thread Al Thomas
From: Charles Hixson charleshi...@earthlink.net Sent: Sunday, 26 July 2015, 21:09 Subject: [Vala] Simple filewalker code. Comments? T his is working filewalker code, but I'm hoping someone will tell me if this is the correct approach. correctness depends on your criteria. You say it

Re: [Vala] Rewriting GLib C code in Vala

2015-07-24 Thread Al Thomas
From: Dmitry Golovin d...@golovin.in Sent: Friday, 24 July 2015, 10:04 Subject: [Vala] Rewriting GLib C code in Vala I'm now transfering Cogl examples to Vala: https://github.com/tpimh/vala-cogl Interesting stuff. I also like the reference you've found where someone has written an image

Re: [Vala] Variable-length array in struct and initializing an array of such structs

2015-07-23 Thread Al Thomas
From: Steef Hegeman steefhege...@hotmail.com Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2015, 20:56 Subject: Re: [Vala] Variable-length array in struct and initializing an array of such structs Maybe I didn't word myself properly: the array I want to be dynamic is the array inside the structs (called

Re: [Vala] Variable-length array in struct and initializing an array of such structs

2015-07-23 Thread Al Thomas
From: Steef Hegeman steefhege...@hotmail.com Sent: Thursday, 23 July 2015, 18:47 Subject: [Vala] Variable-length array in struct and initializing an array of such structs If I understand correctly, arrays declared like this: type[] an_array are arrays with a variable length. This gets

[Vala] [Announcement] 'List of Bindings' wiki page

2015-07-02 Thread Al Thomas
I have put together a new wiki page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/ListOfBindings This is an combination of the old pages: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/ExternalBindings https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/BindingsStatus which now redirect to the new page. There is also a

Re: [Vala] Need some feedback for Valum, a web micro-framework!

2015-06-30 Thread Al Thomas
From: Guillaume Poirier-Morency guillaumepoiriermore...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 17:22 Subject: Re: [Vala] Need some feedback for Valum, a web micro-framework! -framework/valum/blob/master/examples/app/main.gs ). The Genie example is broken [indent=2] namespace

Re: [Vala] Need some feedback for Valum, a web micro-framework!

2015-06-29 Thread Al Thomas
From: Guillaume Poirier-Morency guillaumepoiriermore...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, 27 June 2015, 16:35 Subject: Re: [Vala] Need some feedback for Valum, a web micro-framework! Modules is just a pattern to simplify and decouple an application in reusable pieces, so I have never thought about hot

Re: [Vala] Need some feedback for Valum, a web micro-framework!

2015-06-27 Thread Al Thomas
From: Guillaume Poirier-Morency guillaumepoiriermore...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, 27 June 2015, 3:37 Subject: [Vala] Need some feedback for Valum, a web micro-framework! I am working on a web micro-framework this summer as part of an academic project. I plan to release a stable and

Re: [Vala] Bindings wiki pages, was Re: libserialport binding

2015-06-23 Thread Al Thomas
to merge the contents into the ExternalBindings page.  I created it when I started maintaining the bindings in the hope that people would adopt some bindings, but it never really happened. On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 22:23 +, Al Thomas wrote: Thanks for the appreciation for the nav bar idea. I

Re: [Vala] Bindings wiki pages, was Re: libserialport binding

2015-06-22 Thread Al Thomas
. We should have put that there along time ago.   On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Al Thomas astav...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Evan Nemerson e...@coeus-group.com Sent: Friday, 19 June 2015, 19:47 Subject: Re: [Vala] libserialport binding On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 19:18 +0200, Daniel Brendle wrote

[Vala] Bindings wiki pages, was Re: libserialport binding

2015-06-22 Thread Al Thomas
the bar. We should have put that there along time ago.   On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Al Thomas astav...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Evan Nemerson e...@coeus-group.com Sent: Friday, 19 June 2015, 19:47 Subject: Re: [Vala] libserialport binding On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 19:18 +0200, Daniel

[Vala] Bindings wiki pages, was Re: libserialport binding

2015-06-20 Thread Al Thomas
From: Evan Nemerson e...@coeus-group.com Sent: Friday, 19 June 2015, 19:47 Subject: Re: [Vala] libserialport binding On Fri, 2015-06-19 at 19:18 +0200, Daniel Brendle wrote: On 06/19/2015 05:52 AM, ?? wrote: https://github.com/nemequ/vala-extra-vapis This is the place where many

Re: [Vala] Gdk.RGBA in text tag - possible leak?

2015-05-18 Thread Al Thomas
From: Gilzad Hamuni gil...@gmx.net To: Vala-list vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Monday, 18 May 2015, 14:19 Subject: [Vala] Gdk.RGBA in text tag - possible leak? while accessing the color properties of a text tag, I noticed that the memory usage constantly goes up. In the uploaded example I

Re: [Vala] Using a C library

2015-04-28 Thread Al Thomas
From: Justin Brown justin.br...@fandingo.org Cc: vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 7:05 Subject: Re: [Vala] Using a C library I did have a question about the C sp_error enum. There are 36 values [0-35] in the C library, but there are some gaps such that the last value

[Vala] Is has_type_id = false needed in a VAPI binding of an enum?

2015-04-28 Thread Al Thomas
I'm pretty sure has_type_id = false isn't needed in an enum mapping in a VAPI file. I have tried both false and true values and there is no difference in the running of the test program I created. The test program just just prints the enum values. I have also binary compared the program and

Re: [Vala] GObjectIntrospection and Generics

2015-04-28 Thread Al Thomas
From: Daniel Brendle grindh...@skarphed.org To: vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 10:04 Subject: [Vala] GObjectIntrospection and Generics I write a library in Vala that i want to expose through GObject Introspection. How do i use generics from other languages and where

Re: [Vala] Using a C library

2015-04-22 Thread Al Thomas
From: Justin Brown justin.br...@fandingo.org Cc: vala-list@gnome.org Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2015, 7:05 This is the essence of what you are doing - creating an interface between your Vala code and the C code being generated. It took me a while to appreciate and understand this statement.

Re: [Vala] Using a C library

2015-04-21 Thread Al Thomas
From: Justin Brown justin.br...@fandingo.org To: Jens Georg m...@jensge.org Sent: Monday, 20 April 2015, 23:41 Subject: Re: [Vala] Using a C library T hanks so much for the replies! I'm starting to make some slow progress, but holy cow is that confusing coming from a friendlier language

Re: [Vala] Using a C library

2015-04-21 Thread Al Thomas
From: Abderrahim Kitouni a.kito...@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, 21 April 2015, 16:02 Subject: Re: [Vala] Using a C library Le 21 avr. 2015 12:19, Al Thomas astav...@yahoo.co.uk a écrit : I've had a quick search and it looks as though a libspotify.pc file exists, e.g. [...] you rename

[Vala] Constructor error in object creation and deterministic destruction

2015-03-17 Thread Al Thomas
Hello, I wanted to check that the destructor is always called, even when an exception is thrown during the construction of the object. I've coded this up in Genie and when the object can't be created, because the resource (an empty file in this case) isn't available, an exception is thrown.

Re: [Vala] Is Genie Alive?

2015-03-05 Thread Al Thomas
From: zeta kmsi...@gmail.com Subject: [Vala] Is Genie Alive? I am currently learning the vala programing lenguague, this is grate, I also read about Genie that has python style typing If by typing you mean what you type on the keyboard then yes, Genie usesindentation (tabs by default) for

[Vala] Fw: Is Genie Alive?

2015-03-05 Thread Al Thomas
From: zeta kmsi...@gmail.com Subject: [Vala] Is Genie Alive? I am currently learning the vala programing lenguague, this is grate, I also read about Genie that has python style typing If by typing you mean what you type on the keyboard then yes, Genie usesindentation (tabs by default) for

[Vala] enum access modifiers

2014-12-06 Thread Al Thomas
always be public? Although a method within an interface could possibly be protected as a mixin for implementation only? Any thoughts? Al Thomas ___ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list

Re: [Vala] enum access modifiers

2014-12-06 Thread Al Thomas
`test.a' denied? I could not understand the rest of the mail, sorry. On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Al Thomas astav...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The Vala manual states that an enum takes an access modifier, from https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Manual/Enumerated%20types%20%28Enums%29 :enum

Re: [Vala] open and read a csv file

2014-10-16 Thread Al Thomas
From: Jason Scurtu scu...@mail.de Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2014, 14:42 Subject: [Vala] open and read a csv file Basicly, I want to open a csv and write the data to a SQLite database and display it in a GridView .. but, how to read a CSV? I come from a C# background and I can hardly find

Re: [Vala] open and read a csv file

2014-10-16 Thread Al Thomas
From: Jason Scurtu scu...@mail.de Sent: Thursday, 16 October 2014, 14:42 Subject: [Vala] open and read a csv file Basicly, I want to open a csv and write the data to a SQLite database Just remembered you can import CSV straight into SQLite with the import

Re: [Vala] [Genie] Build for windows under linux. Using minwg.

2014-09-14 Thread Al Thomas
Hi, From: Gontzal Uriarte txasato...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, 14 September 2014, 14:29 Subject: [Vala] [Genie] Build for windows under linux. Using minwg. I have finished a Katamotz Ejercicios new application for reading learning and teaching. Is a Genie

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