[java-gnome-hackers] Fisrt work to update .defs with new 2.12 functions

[Vreixo F. L. <met...@ya...>]

Hi!

Send you a patch with first work on updating .defs to
Gtk 2.12. I've based my work on pygtk 2.12.1 defs
data. Some notes:

1. pygtk misses many of new gtk 2.12 functions, I've
added some of them (specially Tooltip related) but we
still need several of them.

2. In several types it has been removed the line

  (return-type "none")

I've reverted such changes.

3. Several

(deprecated)

have been removed. I've instead removed the
definitions from .defs files.

4. They have added a flag

(unblock-threads #t) 

to some functions that currently are in missing.defs.
Some I think we don't need to worry about it for now.

Ok, what I have done:

1. Branch from pygtk
2. Update with current pygtk 2.12.1 defs data. I've
tagged this as "pygtk-2.12" to become a source for
future updates.
3. Merge current mainline. bzr is great!!! It has
handled most of our changes to .defs data
automatically, only a few conflicts appear.
4. Manually add some 2.12 functions that were missing
in pygtk data. I've also updated Tooltips functions
and removed Tooltips class.

Future tasks (I can take care of any of these, waiting
for your comments):

- Continue 2.12 update, i.e., adding all functions
that are still missing (I think they're more than 100
functions!!) Interesting ones may be:
	- New Widgets: GtkScaleButton, GtkVolumeButton
	- New objects (not widgets): GtkRecentAction,
GtkBuilder
- Update to Java 5. This opens cool possibilities,
such as implementation of GtkBuilder based on
annotations (much like object-relational mappers like
Hybernate-annotations)
- Improve memory management. This is a pending task
since several months. We must take care of freeing
returned objects we own (caller-own-return flag in
.defs), specially char* or GList we currently just
convert to string opts without freeing them. The same
for GBoxeds and maybe to some GObjects. GList are a
challenge, as we may own: the list itself (not the
elements), or both the list and elements.
caller-own-return needs to be improved.

Cheers,
Vreixo


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