The
documentation for seed gobject introspection is improving continually, I now have a
jhbuild virtual machine, which is picking up the latest versions from git.
In addition many of the documentation details have been expanded, including
- Interfaces, Enums
- callback methods are now documented
- More libraries have been added.
- More doc comments can be picked up
With better documentation it's finally possible to figure out how to use the API. A classic example of this was a small problem I tried to solve before the API documentation was available. Listing a directory asynchronously, It took me over an hour to get close to figuring out how to do this, I eventually had to give up. as digging through the source, C reference and GIR files took so long.
However within 5 minutes with the documentation, I was able to write a small script to do this.
Gio = imports.gi.Gio;
Gtk = imports.gi.Gtk;
var f = Gio.file_new_for_path('/home/');
f.enumerate_children_async (
"*",
Gio.FileQueryInfoFlags.NONE,
GLib.PRIORITY_DEFAULT,
null,
function(o,ar) {
// listing completed..
var fe = f.enumerate_children_finish(ar);
var ch = false;
while (ch = fe.next_file(null)) {
Seed.print(ch.get_name());
}
Seed.quit();
},
null);
Gtk.main();
