GTK bindings

[Petr Man]

Hello list,
I wanted to do some GUI prototyping for Syx, for which I have to
extend the GTK bindings. My question is, if the code in /plugins/gtk/
st/ is completely handwritten or at least partially generated.
Petr

[Luca Bruno]

Hi,
the smalltalk code of gtk is manually written. This beacuse methods
gets Smalltalk style, while they have no smalltalk-like meaning if
they are auto generated. But feel free to adopt a new method for
writing the bindings.
An example of smalltalk-like method is Table>>#attach: where you can
use Points instead of x:y:rx:ry: etc.. But in such case the method can
be overridden. Another thing is that entry.setText is better to be
written as entry text: in smalltalk, but not all methods can be mapped
as above, etc. etc.. As I said, feel free to adopt another strategy
like autogenerating the smalltalk code (see the X11 bindings for
example).

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