whirl2il is progressing.

Work on my whirl2il thing is progressing:

kris@rainbow-colored-lizard:/tmp$ cat > foo.c
static int get_return_val (void)             
{
        return 23;
}
int main (void)
{
        int i = get_return_val ();
        return i;
}
kris@rainbow-colored-lizard:/tmp$ /source/open64/osprey1.0/targia32_ia64_nodebug/gccfe/gfec foo.c > /dev/null
kris@rainbow-colored-lizard:/tmp$ ~kris/projects/whirl2il/whirl2il foo.B > foo.il
kris@rainbow-colored-lizard:/tmp$ cat foo.il 
.module 'foo.B'
.method public static int32 get_return_val() cil managed {
        ldc.i4 23
        ret
}
.method public static int32 main() cil managed {
        .entrypoint
        .locals init (
                int32 i
        )
        call int32 get_return_val()
        stloc.0
        ldloc.0
        ret
}
kris@rainbow-colored-lizard:/tmp$ ilasm foo.il
Assembling 'foo.il' , no listing file, to exe --> 'foo.exe'
Compilation succeeded
kris@rainbow-colored-lizard:/tmp$ mono foo.exe
kris@rainbow-colored-lizard:/tmp$ echo $?
23

A lot of things changed. Didn't touch gtk+ for months, and I am not really interested in GNOME hacking anymore. Though I might come back at some point. Meanwhile I hacked on a personal project, but I got bored with that too for a bit (but I will surely continue with it one day).

I finally have a new project to work on. First I wanted to write a GTK-based tagtool in C#. But for that I need C# bindings for taglib. I was wondering if there was an automatic C++ to C# binding generator yet, but apparently there isn't. Then Miguel talked me into writing a WHIRL to IL translator, which sounds really interesting. So I am just going to try it. So that is my new project. Once I finish it, I can write my tagtool-thing.

Also, for some reason I started to like OSX on my iBook so much (I used to really hate it before) that I decided to reinstall my iBook with one big OSX partition, instead of dual boot OSX/debian. Now I also want a desktop Mac. I guess I will buy a dual G4 or a G5 one day.

There are plans to attend both GUADEC and Akademy this year. But I am not really sure yet.

Long time no update blah blah blah. Had fun holidays; made exams; etc. I have nothing more interesting to tell except that I am going to take a break from GNOME for an undecided amount of time.

Still busy with university and jobs blah blah blah.

Did manage to get all my new objects/widgets in GTK+ HEAD and write API doc comments for them. Which I am happy about. I also got some good feedback from mpesenti, who is the first victim to try to use GtkComboBoxEntry and GtkEntryCompletion. He also had a lot of good feedback when I was trying to design the entry combo/completion part of the combo box/option menu replacement, which I really appreciate. I think we made the completion stuff rock.

Since all my new stuff is in, I hope to get back to TreeView. I have too many plans for TreeView for 2.4. I need to make a good list first and punt a lot.

One of the reasons why GtkComboBox is cooler than GtkOptionMenu :) :

!  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
Index: textview.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gtk+/demos/gtk-demo/textview.c,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 textview.c
--- textview.c  5 Aug 2003 19:16:01 -0000       1.18
+++ textview.c  10 Oct 2003 17:15:50 -0000
@@ -399,21 +399,11 @@ attach_widgets (GtkTextView *text_view)
         }
       else if (i == 1)
         {
-          GtkWidget *menu_item;
-          GtkWidget *menu;
+          widget = gtk_combo_box_new_text ();
 
-          menu = gtk_menu_new ();
-          
-          widget = gtk_option_menu_new ();
-
-          menu_item = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label ("Option 1");
-          gtk_menu_shell_append (GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu), menu_item);
-          menu_item = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label ("Option 2");
-          gtk_menu_shell_append (GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu), menu_item);
-          menu_item = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label ("Option 3");
-          gtk_menu_shell_append (GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu), menu_item);
-
-          gtk_option_menu_set_menu (GTK_OPTION_MENU (widget), menu);
+          gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (widget), "Option 1");
+          gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (widget), "Option 2");
+          gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (widget), "Option 3");

[edit: I forgot some google-fu for Jonathan Blandford.]