> Looks like a bug to me.

I opened an issue on GitHub: http://github.com/ffi/ffi/issues/issue/44

> As a workaround, moving the attaching of g_object_set to before the enums makes
> the example run fine.

Works for me, too. Thank you!

Marvin

On 27 Apr., 22:42, Matijs van Zuijlen <mat...@matijs.net> wrote:

> Hi Marvin,
>
> On 04/27/2010 07:19 PM, Quintus wrote:
>

> > - the second fails with a quite strange error message:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.1-p378/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ffi-0.6.3/lib/ffi/
> > types.rb:46:in `find_type': Unable to resolve type
> > 'string' (TypeError)
> >    from /opt/rubies/ruby-1.9.1-p378/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/ffi-0.6.3/
> > lib/ffi/variadic.rb:47:in `call'
> >    from (eval):3:in `g_object_set'
> >    from gtkbox.rb:66:in `show'
> >    from gtkbox.rb:76:in `<main>'
> > -------------------------------------------------------------

>

> > What's the matter? As far as I know, :string as a regular type in
> > FFI.

>
> Looking at the ffi code, the fact that you create two new types in the second
> example completely overrules the default type map when resolving varargs types.
> Looks like a bug to me.
>
>
>

> > And here's the (non-working) second:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > [...]

>

> >            enum :type, [ :gtk_message_info,
> >                                  :gtk_message_warning,
> >                                  :gtk_message_question,
> >                                  :gtk_message_error,
> >                                  :gtk_message_other
> >                                ]

>

> >            enum :buttons, [:gtk_buttons_none,
> >                                      :gtk_button_ok,
> >                                      :gtk_buttons_close,
> >                                      :gtk_buttons_cancel,
> >                                      :gtk_buttons_yes_no,
> >                                      :gtk_buttons_ok_cancel
> >                                      ]

>
> At this point, @ffi_typedefs contains :type and :buttons, and only varargs of
> those types will be recognized.
>
> As a workaround, moving the attaching of g_object_set to before the enums makes
> the example run fine.
>
> --
> Matijs