Features/Evince Introspection Bindings
Summary
The pygtk bindings used until F14 to use the evince backend in Read activity, are no longer present in F16. We need use the new gi based bindings
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Current status
- Targeted release: 0.96
- Last updated: 25/10/2011
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Initial information
- The bindings are not ready to use. We need work closely with upstream to solve the remaining issues.
There are a bug related https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635705
and the method factory_get_document needed to open a document, is marked as not introspectable https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662709
Implementation plan
The first step is port this simple demo to gtk3:
e = evince.View()
docmodel = evince.DocumentModel()
doc = evince.document_factory_get_document('file:///path/to/file/example.pdf')
docmodel.set_document(doc)
e.set_model(model)
More information
Simon did tests and report:
what I did today to get a bit of a feeling of what is needed to port Read was looking at the evince bidings through introspection. So first, hmmm what is the gi repository called?
In Fedora you can have a look at '/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/' and find out that there is a EvinceDocument-3.0.typelib and a EvinceDocument-3.0.typelib. If we have a quick look at [1] we find out that the .typelib is a Binary version of the invocation info. Ok let's try this:
from gi.repository import EvinceDocument dir(EvinceDocument)
from gi.repository import EvinceView dir(EvinceView)
Works!
Looking at the invokations in read/evinceadapter.py I did extract the calls we did previously on the evince module (e.g. evince.View()) and checked if they were present, too.
The evince.View() is now EvinceView.View().
Furthermore are present:
help(view) view.set_model view.can_zoom_in, view.can_zoom_out view.zoom_in view_zoom_out view.find_next view.find_previous view.scroll view.copy view.find_set_highlight_search
I could not find: update_view_size, find_changed
Some further transitions: evince.JobFind -> EvinceView.JobFind evince.Job.scheduler_push_job -> EvinceView.Job
I could not find: evince.SIZING_* (e.g. evince.SIZING_BEST_FIT)
More info on the EvinceView API are at [2].
And then I came across an hard one (which I have not solved yet):
I could not find out how 'evince.document_factory_get_document(file_path)' should be called now. Looking at the API it should be maybe something like EvinceDocument.factory_get_document, trying that:
>>> EvinceDocument.factory_get_document Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 243, in __getattr__ return getattr(self._introspection_module, name) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 105, in __getattr__ self.__name__, name))
AttributeError: 'gi.repository.EvinceDocument' object has no attribute 'factory_get_document' >>>
Hmm, I did get the sources, then to have a look because the .typelib is a Binary version of the invocation info and therefore I need to have a look at the .gir file to dig a bit deeper. After installing all the dependencies I did a './autogen.sh --enable-introspection' and run 'make' and had a .gir file placed in libdocument/EvinceDocument-3.0.gir. Looking at the definition it says:
<function name="factory_get_document"
c:identifier="ev_document_factory_get_document"
introspectable="0"
throws="1">
Hmm, so it should not be available 'introspectable="0"'. Why, how, this exercise is left to the reader, I am a bit stuck on this :)
A good resource for asking related is questions is #introspection on GimpNet. I have attached the chat I had with Tomeu about that issue.
Regards,
Simon
[1] http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/Architecture [2] http://developer.gnome.org/libevview/stable/ [3] http://developer.gnome.org/libevdocument/stable/libevdocument-ev-document-factory.html
The gir file is installed with the package evince-devel in /usr/share/gir-1.0/EvinceDocument-3.0.gir
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