Glib::Flags

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3pm)
Updated: 2010-07-31
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NAME

Glib::Flags - Overloaded operators representing GLib flags  

HIERARCHY

  Glib::Flags

 

DESCRIPTION

Glib maps flag and enum values to the nicknames strings provided by the underlying C libraries. Representing flags this way in Perl is an interesting problem, which Glib solves by using some cool overloaded operators.

The functions described here actually do the work of those overloaded operators. See the description of the flags operators in the ``This Is Now That'' section of Glib for more info.  

METHODS

 

scalar = $class->new ($a)

$a (scalar)

Create a new flags object with given bits. This is for use from a subclass, it's not possible to create a "Glib::Flags" object as such. For example,

    my $f1 = Glib::ParamFlags->new ('readable');
    my $f2 = Glib::ParamFlags->new (['readable','writable']);

An object like this can then be used with the overloaded operators.  

scalar = $a->all ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (scalar)
 

ref = $a->as_arrayref

 

integer = $a->bool ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (integer)
 

integer = $a->eq ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (integer)
 

integer = $a->ge ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (integer)
 

scalar = $a->intersect ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (scalar)
 

integer = $a->ne ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (integer)
 

scalar = $a->sub ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (scalar)
 

scalar = $a->union ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (scalar)
 

scalar = $a->xor ($b, $swap)

$b (scalar)
$swap (scalar)
 

SEE ALSO

Glib  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003-2009 by the gtk2-perl team.

This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Glib for a full notice.


 

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NAME
HIERARCHY
DESCRIPTION
METHODS
scalar = $class->new ($a)
scalar = $a->all ($b, $swap)
ref = $a->as_arrayref
integer = $a->bool ($b, $swap)
integer = $a->eq ($b, $swap)
integer = $a->ge ($b, $swap)
scalar = $a->intersect ($b, $swap)
integer = $a->ne ($b, $swap)
scalar = $a->sub ($b, $swap)
scalar = $a->union ($b, $swap)
scalar = $a->xor ($b, $swap)
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT

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