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Diffstat (limited to 'gir/glib-2.0.c')
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1 files changed, 41 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/gir/glib-2.0.c b/gir/glib-2.0.c index c91dddd7..9fc4beb1 100644 --- a/gir/glib-2.0.c +++ b/gir/glib-2.0.c @@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ * various functions such as g_io_channel_write_chars() to * write raw bytes to the channel. Encoding and buffering * issues are dealt with at a higher level. - * @io_seek: (optional) seeks the channel. This is called from + * @io_seek: (optional): seeks the channel. This is called from * g_io_channel_seek() on channels that support it. * @io_close: closes the channel. This is called from * g_io_channel_close() after flushing the buffers. @@ -5418,13 +5418,13 @@ * "Presentación.sxi". If the application which created it uses * ISO-8859-1 for its encoding, * |[ - * Character: P r e s e n t a c i ó n . s x i + * Character: P r e s e n t a c i ó n . s x i * Hex code: 50 72 65 73 65 6e 74 61 63 69 f3 6e 2e 73 78 69 * ]| * However, if the application use UTF-8, the actual file name on * disk would look like this: * |[ - * Character: P r e s e n t a c i ó n . s x i + * Character: P r e s e n t a c i ó n . s x i * Hex code: 50 72 65 73 65 6e 74 61 63 69 c3 b3 6e 2e 73 78 69 * ]| * Glib uses UTF-8 for its strings, and GUI toolkits like GTK+ that use @@ -6076,7 +6076,7 @@ * Note that, unless you set the #G_REGEX_RAW flag, all the strings passed * to these functions must be encoded in UTF-8. The lengths and the positions * inside the strings are in bytes and not in characters, so, for instance, - * "\xc3\xa0" (i.e. "à") is two bytes long but it is treated as a + * "\xc3\xa0" (i.e. "à") is two bytes long but it is treated as a * single character. If you set #G_REGEX_RAW the strings can be non-valid * UTF-8 strings and a byte is treated as a character, so "\xc3\xa0" is two * bytes and two characters long. @@ -6159,10 +6159,36 @@ * @short_description: strongly typed value datatype * @see_also: GVariantType * - * #GVariant is a variant datatype; it stores a value along with - * information about the type of that value. The range of possible - * values is determined by the type. The type system used by #GVariant - * is #GVariantType. + * #GVariant is a variant datatype; it can contain one or more values + * along with information about the type of the values. + * + * A #GVariant may contain simple types, like an integer, or a boolean value; + * or complex types, like an array of two strings, or a dictionary of key + * value pairs. A #GVariant is also immutable: once it's been created neither + * its type nor its content can be modified further. + * + * GVariant is useful whenever data needs to be serialized, for example when + * sending method parameters in DBus, or when saving settings using GSettings. + * + * When creating a new #GVariant, you pass the data you want to store in it + * along with a string representing the type of data you wish to pass to it. + * + * For instance, if you want to create a #GVariant holding an integer value you + * can use: + * + * |[<!-- language="C" --> + * GVariant *v = g_variant_new ('u', 40); + * ]| + * + * The string 'u' in the first argument tells #GVariant that the data passed to + * the constructor (40) is going to be an unsigned integer. + * + * More advanced examples of #GVariant in use can be found in documentation for + * [GVariant format strings][gvariant-format-strings-pointers]. + * + * The range of possible values is determined by the type. + * + * The type system used by #GVariant is #GVariantType. * * #GVariant instances always have a type and a value (which are given * at construction time). The type and value of a #GVariant instance @@ -12993,7 +13019,7 @@ * @date: a #GDate * * Returns the week of the year during which this date falls, if - * weeks are understood to being on Sunday. The date must be valid. + * weeks are understood to begin on Sunday. The date must be valid. * Can return 0 if the day is before the first Sunday of the year. * * Returns: week number @@ -15305,7 +15331,7 @@ * and said environment variables have no effect. * * `G_FILENAME_ENCODING` may be set to a comma-separated list of - * character set names. The special token "@locale" is taken + * character set names. The special token "\@locale" is taken * to mean the character set for the [current locale][setlocale]. * If `G_FILENAME_ENCODING` is not set, but `G_BROKEN_FILENAMES` is, * the character set of the current locale is taken as the filename @@ -27960,7 +27986,7 @@ * @exceptions: (nullable): a string of characters not to escape in @source * * Escapes the special characters '\b', '\f', '\n', '\r', '\t', '\v', '\' - * and '"' in the string @source by inserting a '\' before + * and '"' in the string @source by inserting a '\' before * them. Additionally all characters in the range 0x01-0x1F (everything * below SPACE) and in the range 0x7F-0xFF (all non-ASCII chars) are * replaced with a '\' followed by their octal representation. @@ -28626,6 +28652,10 @@ * optional @separator inserted between each of them. The returned string * should be freed with g_free(). * + * If @str_array has no items, the return value will be an + * empty string. If @str_array contains a single item, @separator will not + * appear in the resulting string. + * * Returns: a newly-allocated string containing all of the strings joined * together, with @separator between them */ |