[Java-gnome-developer] Adding support for other GTK Objects

[dkennedy <dke...@li...>]

Hello,

I stumbled across java-gnome recently and I have to say that I am impressed.
It works very well and has a nice clean interface.

I would like to add Java support for a Gtk object that is not part of the
standard Gtk set.  Because the Gtk object is in a separate .so file and has a
different header I had to do the following:
	- add the appropriate description into gtk.defs
	- add a line to /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h
	- relink the libGTKJava.so adding in a dependancy for the separate .so

The above worked great and it does exactly what I want.  Unfortunately, it is
obviously a big hack.

I would like to know how I should go about adding a java interface to this Gtk
object.  I have a few thoughts:
	- I would like to distribute the .defs file with the Gtk object itself
	- I noticed that there is an include operative in the .defs file so perhaps
	  including the gtk.defs would be the way to go.
	- Hopefully there could be a way of specifying a .so in some meta way to be
	  associated with the .defs

Can you please suggest how I should go about doing this?

Thank you.

BTW: The Gtk object I am wrapping is GtkEmbedMoz the gtk embedded mozilla
object.  And please don't mention the Blackwood project.

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