Re: Enums, flags and ::

Actually, looking up GTK_WIN_POS_MOUSE is faster than Gtk::WIN_POS_MOUSE, but not by that much. My main goal was to separate things cleanly, so that the global namespace doesn't contain all the constants. If you think that this is not something we should worry about, I guess we can put the constants back into the global scope. -Andrei On Oct 25, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Steph Fox wrote:

Hi Madeleine, It's down to PHP 5/Zend Engine 2's object support. We didn't have this in PHP 4, so the bindings were made via GtkEnumType and we had the same syntax as in GTK+. Basically all it means is that something like, say, GTK_WIN_POS_MOUSE, is now registered as a constant named WIN_POS_MOUSE within a zend_class_entry struct named GTK. I have to say it makes absolute sense to do it this way from an internals perspective - much cleaner, and probably faster when it comes to lookups - it's just a bit of a thrower on the user side. - Steph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Madeleine D." <mmdrake@bctonline.com> To: "Steph Fox" <steph@zend.com>; "Andrei" <andrei@gravitonic.com> Cc: "PHP-GTK dev" <php-gtk-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-GTK-DEV] Enums, flags and ::

Steph - I hit the same thing on my upgrade attempt. Christian's right, in that I see so much that needs to be changed already, the Enums/Flags would be just one more thing to do. Since I've got about 40k of code, that's no small thing, but it's not fatal either. My question is: why do they need to change? What is being gained here? Madeleine D. At 04:50 PM 10/25/05 +0100, Steph Fox wrote:

Before it's too late (assuming it isn't already): Is there any way we can return enums/flags to the standard GTK format, as they were in PHP-GTK 1? If you remember that far back, I spent more than a day trying to work out what I was doing wrong when every enum in sight failed in an old script I upgraded to PHP-GTK 2. I don't think I'm going to be the only

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baffled by that change. It's also the one area Christian and I can't come to an agreement over in our coding standards discussions, because what _should_ be a constant is being treated as some kind of a pseudo-method, which makes either

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inconsistent by definition. I know it'd be a BC breakage for PHP-GTK 2 to change this now, but then again we haven't released v. 2 yet. At present it's a BC breakage for PHP-GTK 1, which is probably more serious. So the question is, do enums and flags _have_ to be registered as class entry constants for ZE 2 to deal with them? Or is it just a matter of convenience? - and the next question is, assuming it's possible to register them as global constants, should we? - Steph -- PHP-GTK Development Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php