[gtk-server] Re: R: Re: R: How to bind varargs functions

  • From: Leonardo Cecchi <leonardoce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: gtk-server@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, administrator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:32:37 +0100

Thanks Peter for the prompt reply!
Please help my to understand your code... the line:

(set 'arg (address (pack "d" 64))))

Store the address of the new allocated array in the arg variable right?
But Gtk-Server runs in another process... how can he read the memory of the 
new-lisp process?

Thanks and excuse me if the question is stupid.

Leonardo




Peter van Eerten ha scritto:

Hi Leonardo,

From your tracefile I see you are using the call "gtk_list_store_new". Looking 
further into this GTK function it appears that the second argument is of a
C-type 'varargs'. This type cannot be converted by the GTK-server and is the
reason for the crash.

Instead, use "gtk_list_store_newv", which, as the GTK documentation states, is
used by language bindings.

The second argument of this GTK function however expects a pointer to an array
of integers. In newLisp I would implement this as follows, using your value for
G_TYPE_STRING:

(set 'arg (address (pack "d" 64))))
(gtk "gtk_list_store_newv" 1 arg)


As you may see, the client language must have the capability to construct a 
C
pointer. Languages like newLisp and Perl can do that. But I am not sure if this
is also possible with CLisp.

The prototype in the configfile would look like:

GTK_LIB_FUNCTION = gtk_list_store_newv, NONE, WIDGET, 2, LONG, LONG


Best regards
Peter




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