Re: Wrapping the other way round

[Andreas Rottmann]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> It's sometimes useful to allow C code to call Scheme code. 
>
Yes, prime example being Scheme callbacks.

> While G-Wrap's goal it to wrap C code so that it is callable by
> Scheme code, I can't think of a way it could be useful in generating
> code that wraps things the other way.
>
> However, I'm pretty sure guile-gnome needs it somewhere, but I couldn't
> find an example illustrating this.  Idea?  Pointers?
>
Wrapping callbacks is not automatically possible with G-Wrap ATM. You
have to manually write some C code to accomplish that. See e.g. [0],
_wrap_g_io_add_watch().

[0] 
http://rotty-ipv4.yi.org/cgi-bin/archzoom.cgi/address@hidden/glib--dev--0--patch-10/gnome/gw/glib-support.c

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