What Jürg is trying to say, is that if you have some method/function which gets some GObject (for example before now if you wanted to implement your own list and get a gobject you need to do it manually making a GBoxed object which stores your struct), you can now implement them automagically if you are using structs, like in other languages like C#, which makes it transparent for the developer. If not, you should make your method/function pass a gpointer or something like that, and it ends being more "problematic".
El dom, 21-12-2008 a las 09:06 +0100, Jürg Billeter escribió: > On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 07:57 +0800, Barry Kauler wrote: > > > * Register structs as boxed types. > > > > This must be a good thing, but what does it mean in practical terms? > > I mean, I haven't got a clue what a "boxed type" is and how that changes > > how we use structs in Vala/Genie. > > With boxed, I meant GBoxed in the GObject type system. It does not > change how structs are used in Vala/Genie. However, it makes it possible > to store a Vala struct in a GValue, which is necessary to use structs as > GObject properties among other things. > > > Is there documentation anywhere? > > If you want more information about GBoxed, have a look at the GObject > documentation. > > > Will Genie have to be updated also? > > No, this was a change in the code generator, which applies to both, Vala > and Genie. > > Jürg > > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > Vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
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