I'm trying to make my own application that will listen to the media-keys in gnome using dbus. I have found a script that works in python and I'm trying to make it work by converting it to C. My c-c...

I try to implement a GType interface in C++ using Glibmm (part of Gtkmm). The object will be passed to an API in C. Unfortunately, the documentation for gtkmm does not cover many details of how it ...

I'm developing a library using a number of glib datastructures (GHashTable, GSList etc.). I've been checking my code frequently for memory leaks using valgrind. Most of the issues valgrind points o...

I tend to use std *alloc/free functions to allocate/free dynamic memory in my C programs. I wonder if there are any good reasons to use the GLIB Memory Allocation functions instead of the std ones...

Why utf8 symbols cannot be printed via glib functions? Source code: #include "glib.h" #include <stdio.h> int main() { g_print("марко\n"); fprintf(stdout, "марко\n"); } Build it like th...

1: /* 2: * File: xyn-playlist.c 3: * Author: Andrei Ciobanu 4: * 5: * Created on June 4, 2010, 12:47 PM 6: */ 7:   8: #include <dirent.h> 9: #include <glib.h> 10: #include &lt...

I need to modify a GLib's time-out interval while it is in execution. Is that possible? I took a look to the source code and it seems possible to me, but is required use some non-public functions f...

I'm using libnotify to show desktop notifications in my application; notify_notification_new() returns a NotifyNotification*, which should be passed as the first param to further function calls of ...

I want to convert an integer value to string in GLib. Is there any macro or function to da that? Or Can i store different data types in the same doubly linked list?

GObject class A implements interface IA, B is a derived class of A. How can B override A's method that is part of the interface IA? Or, is this possible in GObject? I know how to override parent...

I want to use the Gnome GLib in a Windows environment using the free MinGW compiler to develop in C. The problem is, I have absolutely no idea how to compile this library. Would any of you please e...

I am using glib in my application, and I see there are convenience wrappers in glib for C's remove, unlink and rmdir. But these only work on a single file or directory at a time. As far as I can s...

I have a psychological tic which makes me reluctant to use large libraries (like GLib or Boost) in lower-level languages like C and C++. In my mind, I think: Well, this library has thousands of ...

I am using GLib's doubly linked list structure, GList. I would like to know if there is any standard macro for iterating over a GList. I couldn't find any such thing in the GLib documentation. As a...

I have a couple of hobby C programming projects that I would like to start. I am looking for an open source library that has a liberal license (I want credit, but pretty much anybody can use)...

Does anyone know of an MD5/SHA1/etc routine that is easily used with GLib (i.e. you can give it a GIOChannel, etc)?