Re: Where do I get my Cairo context from (in GTK3)?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 24/04/2016 22:44, hreba wrote:
> In GTk2 you got it from a call of Gdk.Cairo.Create.
>
> In GTK3 it is passed as a parameter of the callback function for the
> "draw" signal with the C prototype:
>
>    gboolean
>    user_function (GtkWidget    *widget,
>                   CairoContext *cr,
>                   gpointer      user_data)
>
> So I wrote in my Ada program (GNAT, gtkada):
>
>    package DA_Ret_Callback is new Gtk.Handlers.User_Return_Callback
>      (Gtk.Widget.Gtk_Widget_Record, Boolean, Handler_DataD);
>
>
>    function Draw_Handler
>      (da: access Gtk.Widget.Gtk_Widget_Record'Class;

If you instantiate it with GObject, why using Gtk_Widget instead?

>       cc: Cairo.Cairo_Context;
>       hd: Handler_DataD) return Boolean is
>    begin
>       ...
>    end Draw_Handler;
>
>
>    procedure Connect_Handlers
>      (obj: Glib.Object.GObject; hd: Handler_DataD;
>       sn_realize, sn_config, sn_draw: Glib.Signal_Name) is
>    begin
>       ...
>       DA_Ret_Callback.Connect
>     (Gtk.Widget.Gtk_Widget(obj), sn_draw,

I suppose sn_draw is "draw".

>      DA_Ret_Callback.To_Marshaller(Draw_Handler'Access),
>      hd);
>    end Connect_Handlers;
>
> The compiler then tells me
>
>    gui-canvas.adb:79:25: no candidate interpretations match the actuals:
>    gui-canvas.adb:79:52: expected type "Handler" defined at
>    gtk-marshallers.ads:309, instance at gtk-handlers.ads:468,
>    instance at line 20

These messages are always misleading. There are too many overloading 
Connects in the package. When there is any problem with any parameter, 
GNAT is practically never able to pinpoint the true reason.

> That means that he expects a handler
>
>          type Handler is access function
>                (Widget    : access Widget_Type'Class;
>                 User_Data : User_Type) return Return_Type;
>
> So where do I get the cairo context from?

As you did. Just make sure that all parameters of Connect match. Instead 
of pointer conversion use object conversion. E.g.

    Gtk_Widget_Record'Class (Obj.all)'Unchecked_Access

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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