Utility Functions: Clutter-Gtk 1.8.0 Reference Manual

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Utility Functions

Utility Functions — Utility functions for integrating Clutter in GTK+

Functions

ClutterInitError	gtk_clutter_init ()
ClutterInitError	gtk_clutter_init_with_args ()
GOptionGroup *	gtk_clutter_get_option_group ()

Description

In order to properly integrate a Clutter scene into a GTK+ applications a certain degree of state must be retrieved from GTK+ itself.

Clutter-GTK provides API for easing the process of synchronizing colors with the current GTK+ theme and for loading image sources from GdkPixbuf, GTK+ stock items and icon themes.

Functions

gtk_clutter_init ()

ClutterInitError
gtk_clutter_init (int *argc,
                  char ***argv);

This function should be called instead of clutter_init() and gtk_init().

Parameters

argc	pointer to the arguments count, or `NULL`.	[inout][allow-none]
argv	pointer to the arguments vector, or `NULL`.	[array length=argc][inout][allow-none]

Returns

CLUTTER_INIT_SUCCESS on success, a negative integer on failure.

gtk_clutter_init_with_args ()

ClutterInitError
gtk_clutter_init_with_args (int *argc,
                            char ***argv,
                            const char *parameter_string,
                            GOptionEntry *entries,
                            const char *translation_domain,
                            GError **error);

This function should be called instead of clutter_init() and gtk_init_with_args().

Parameters

argc	a pointer to the number of command line arguments, or `NULL`.	[inout][allow-none]
argv	a pointer to the array of command line arguments, or `NULL`.	[inout][allow-none][array length=argc]
parameter_string	a string which is displayed in the first line of `--help` output, after `programname [OPTION...]`.	[allow-none]
entries	a `NULL`-terminated array of GOptionEntrys describing the options of your program.	[allow-none][array zero-terminated=1]
translation_domain	a translation domain to use for translating the `--help` output for the options in `entries` with `gettext()`, or `NULL`.	[allow-none]
error	a return location for errors, or `NULL`.	[allow-none]

Returns

CLUTTER_INIT_SUCCESS on success, a negative integer on failure.

gtk_clutter_get_option_group ()

GOptionGroup *
gtk_clutter_get_option_group (void);

Returns a GOptionGroup for the command line arguments recognized by Clutter. You should add this group to your GOptionContext with g_option_context_add_group(), if you are using g_option_context_parse() to parse your commandline arguments instead of using gtk_clutter_init() or gtk_clutter_init_with_args().

You should add this option group to your GOptionContext after the GTK option group created with gtk_get_option_group(), and after the clutter option group obtained from clutter_get_option_group_without_init(). You should not use clutter_get_option_group() together with this function.

You must pass TRUE to gtk_get_option_group() since gtk-clutter's option group relies on it.

Parsing options using g_option_context_parse() with a GOptionContext containing the returned GOptionGroupwith will result in Clutter's and GTK-Clutter's initialisation. That is, the following code:

g_option_context_add_group (context, gtk_get_option_group (TRUE));
g_option_context_add_group (context, cogl_get_option_group ());
g_option_context_add_group (context, clutter_get_option_group_without_init ());
g_option_context_add_group (context, gtk_clutter_get_option_group ());
res = g_option_context_parse (context, &argc, &argc, NULL);

is functionally equivalent to:

1	gtk_clutter_init (&argc, &argv);

After g_option_context_parse() on a GOptionContext containing the the returned GOptionGroup has returned TRUE, Clutter and GTK-Clutter are guaranteed to be initialized.

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Returns

a GOptionGroup for the commandline arguments recognized by ClutterGtk.

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