[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Added libvlc_get_internal_object functions to the PUBLIC API

[basos g]

2008/12/11 Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org>:
> Le jeudi 11 décembre 2008 17:44:48 basos g, vous avez écrit :
>> > I think the whole point of having two layers of APIs is to _not_ do that.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rémi Denis-Courmont
>>
>> Understood. Thats why this is a hackish API.
>> To state an example i used it to constuct the "open device" dialog
>> outside vlc. I re-used vlc code as well as internal API functions
>> acting upon libvlc object.
>>
>> No offence of not included. I posted it mainly for future reference by
>> another person.
>
> The thing is that this API is only useful if you use libvlccore directly.
> Otherwise, you can really not do anything useful with the libvlc instance
> pointer. Therefore, I think the yield and retain function are useless - you
> should can vlc_object_* directly at that point.
>
> As for, it might be OK, if we can put it inside libvlccore rather than libvlc.
> Then at least, we can get proper run-time library version dependency.
>

You are right. I haven't thought of it. It worked from vlccore

New version of the API. Now it is moved to vlc_main.h and is
implemented at src/libvlc.c thus libvlccore.dll

Also diffed against trunk
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