控制元素行为的主要和最重要的方法是通过GObject属性。对象属性在_class_init()函数中定义。元素可选地实现_get_property()和_set_property()函数。如果应用程序更改或请求属性的值,这些函数将得到通知,然后可以填充值或采取所需的操作来在内部更改该属性的值。
您可能还希望保留一个实例变量,其中包含您在get和set函数中使用的属性的当前配置值。注意,GObject不会自动将实例变量设置为默认值,您必须在元素的_init()函数中这样做。
/* properties */
enum {
PROP_0,
PROP_SILENT
/* FILL ME */
};
static void gst_my_filter_set_property (GObject *object,
guint prop_id,
const GValue *value,
GParamSpec *pspec);
static void gst_my_filter_get_property (GObject *object,
guint prop_id,
GValue *value,
GParamSpec *pspec);
static void
gst_my_filter_class_init (GstMyFilterClass *klass)
{
GObjectClass *object_class = G_OBJECT_CLASS (klass);
/* define virtual function pointers */
object_class->set_property = gst_my_filter_set_property;
object_class->get_property = gst_my_filter_get_property;
/* define properties */
g_object_class_install_property (object_class, PROP_SILENT,
g_param_spec_boolean ("silent", "Silent",
"Whether to be very verbose or not",
FALSE, G_PARAM_READWRITE | G_PARAM_STATIC_STRINGS));
}
static void
gst_my_filter_set_property (GObject *object,
guint prop_id,
const GValue *value,
GParamSpec *pspec)
{
GstMyFilter *filter = GST_MY_FILTER (object);
switch (prop_id) {
case PROP_SILENT:
filter->silent = g_value_get_boolean (value);
g_print ("Silent argument was changed to %s\n",
filter->silent ? "true" : "false");
break;
default:
G_OBJECT_WARN_INVALID_PROPERTY_ID (object, prop_id, pspec);
break;
}
}
static void
gst_my_filter_get_property (GObject *object,
guint prop_id,
GValue *value,
GParamSpec *pspec)
{
GstMyFilter *filter = GST_MY_FILTER (object);
switch (prop_id) {
case PROP_SILENT:
g_value_set_boolean (value, filter->silent);
break;
default:
G_OBJECT_WARN_INVALID_PROPERTY_ID (object, prop_id, pspec);
break;
}
}
上面是如何使用属性的一个非常简单的例子。图形化应用程序将使用这些属性,并将显示一个用户可控制的小部件,这些小部件可用于更改这些属性。这意味着,为了使属性尽可能用户友好,您应该尽可能精确地定义属性。不仅定义了可以定位有效属性的范围(对于整数、浮点数等)。
而且在属性的定义中使用非常描述性的(更好的是:国际化的)字符串,如果可能的话使用枚举和标志而不是整数。GObject文档以一种非常完整的方式描述了这些,但是下面,我们将给出一个简短的示例来说明它在哪里有用。注意,在这里使用整数可能会完全混淆用户,因为它们在这种上下文中没有任何意义。这个例子来自videotestsrc。
typedef enum {
GST_VIDEOTESTSRC_SMPTE,
GST_VIDEOTESTSRC_SNOW,
GST_VIDEOTESTSRC_BLACK
} GstVideotestsrcPattern;
[..]
#define GST_TYPE_VIDEOTESTSRC_PATTERN (gst_videotestsrc_pattern_get_type ())
static GType
gst_videotestsrc_pattern_get_type (void)
{
static GType videotestsrc_pattern_type = 0;
if (!videotestsrc_pattern_type) {
static GEnumValue pattern_types[] = {
{ GST_VIDEOTESTSRC_SMPTE, "SMPTE 100% color bars", "smpte" },
{ GST_VIDEOTESTSRC_SNOW, "Random (television snow)", "snow" },
{ GST_VIDEOTESTSRC_BLACK, "0% Black", "black" },
{ 0, NULL, NULL },
};
videotestsrc_pattern_type =
g_enum_register_static ("GstVideotestsrcPattern",
pattern_types);
}
return videotestsrc_pattern_type;
}
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static void
gst_videotestsrc_class_init (GstvideotestsrcClass *klass)
{
[..]
g_object_class_install_property (G_OBJECT_CLASS (klass), PROP_PATTERN,
g_param_spec_enum ("pattern", "Pattern",
"Type of test pattern to generate",
GST_TYPE_VIDEOTESTSRC_PATTERN, GST_VIDEOTESTSRC_SMPTE,
G_PARAM_READWRITE | G_PARAM_STATIC_STRINGS));
[..]
}