Category Archives: Perl

Gnome2::GConf 1.021

Posted on December 27, 2005 by ebassi

The “An Address Indicates Where It Is” release. New release of the Perl bindings for GConf, in time for the incoming GNOME 2.13.4 release. This version sports a bindings for the Gnome2::GConf::Engine::get_for_addresses method of the Gnome2::GConf::Engine class; this method allows … Continue reading →

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Fun with Cairo-perl

Posted on December 23, 2005 by ebassi

Just a little fun with the Cairo Perl bindings. The code is courtesy of the gtkmm tutorial, and can be found here. Update: since the original website went down, here’s the inlined version of the script: package Egg::ClockFace; use warnings; … Continue reading →

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Gtk2::SourceView

Posted on September 28, 2005 by ebassi

Finally, after a more then a year of testing inside CVS, Gtk2::SourceView made it to the public. This Perl module is a wrapper around gtksourceview, the C library used primarily by Gedit. I’ve began writing it in January 2004, after … Continue reading →

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DBus Perl Bindings/3

Posted on May 6, 2005 by ebassi

It seems that my work on a D-Bus perl binding was duplicating the (excellent) work of Daniel P. Berrange. Not that I’m complaining: I badly needed to understand how D-Bus worked, and creating a binding was the fastest way to … Continue reading →

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DBus Perl Bindings/2

Posted on April 27, 2005 by ebassi

After four hours straight of hacking, double-checking references, learning D-Bus and the intricacies of Perl XS programming, I have a preliminary draft of perl bindings for D-Bus. At the moment, they do nothing, since there isn’t much more than the … Continue reading →

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Glib::KeyFile/2

Posted on April 27, 2005 by ebassi

After being in Florence with Marta for just about two days, I’ve received the “go ahead” from the gtk2-perl team, and committed my patch for the GKeyFile bindings (closing bug #301171). Now you can parse the .desktop files directly in … Continue reading →

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Gtk2::Recent and recent-files

Posted on April 16, 2005 by ebassi

Gtk2::Recent status: Finally, the libegg/recent-files bindings for Perl hit the gtk2-perl CVS server (well, at least the authenticated CVS server; anonymous CVS should be updated in 24 hours). recent-files status: On a related note, I mailed James Willcox (the recent-files … Continue reading →

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Glib::KeyFile

Posted on April 15, 2005 by ebassi

I began working on a perl binding for the key file parser inside Glib. I have an implementation almost ready, albeit not usable right now. I’d like to translate a key file structure to the more perlish equivalent of an … Continue reading →

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gtk2-perl lives!/2

Posted on April 15, 2005 by ebassi

I put up some more content on the gtk2-perl wiki page, and Torsten Schoenfeld already helped fixing my typos (kudos, Torsten). So, I hit the gtk2-perl mailing list with the announcement of our wiki page.

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