some fixes, mostly for GTK4

examples/gtk3/css_colored_listview.nim

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ proc listStore(o: gobject.Object): gtk.ListStore =
   assert(typeTest(o, "GtkListStore"))
   cast[gtk.ListStore](o)
 
-proc updateRow(renderer: CellRendererText; path: cstring; newText: cstring; tree: TreeView) =
+proc updateRow(renderer: CellRendererText; path: string; newText: string; tree: TreeView) =
   var iter: TreeIter
   var value: Value
   let gtype = typeFromName("gchararray")

examples/gtk4/textview.nim

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# nim c textview.nim
+# ./textview textview.nim
+# minimal GtkApplication example
+import gintro/[gtk4, gobject, glib, gio] # , gtksource] # gtksource is not yet available for GTK4
+
+from OS import paramCount, paramStr
+
+proc shutdown(app: Application) =
+  echo "shutdown"
+
+proc startup(app: Application) =
+  echo "startup"
+
+proc handleLocalOptions(app: Application; vd: VariantDict): int =
+  echo "handle-local-options"
+
+proc nameLost(app: Application): bool =
+  echo "name-lost"
+
+proc open(app: Application; files: seq[GFile]; hint: string) =
+  var
+    contents: string
+    etagOut: string
+    length: uint64
+    buffer: TextBuffer
+    window: gtk4.Window
+    view: gtk4.TextView
+  echo "open"
+  for f in files:
+    echo f.uri
+  window = app.getActiveWindow
+  if window != nil: # instead of opening a new window reuse existing one
+    let h = ScrolledWindow(window.getChild)
+    view = TextView(h.getChild)
+  else:
+    window = newApplicationWindow(app)
+    window.title = "Text View"
+    window.defaultSize = (800, 600)
+    let scrolledWindow = newScrolledWindow()
+    view = newTextView() # gtksource.newView()
+    window.setChild(scrolledWindow) # add() for GTK3
+    scrolledWindow.setChild(view) # add() for GTK3
+  if files.len > 0:
+    if loadContents(files[0], cancellable = nil, contents, length, etagOut):
+      assert length.int == contents.len
+      echo "hint: ", hint
+      echo "etag: ", etagOut
+      buffer = view.getBuffer
+      buffer.setText(contents, contents.len)
+
+  show(window) # showAll() for GTK3
+
+proc commandLine(app: Application; cl: ApplicationCommandLine): int =
+  echo "command-line"
+
+proc activate(app: Application) =
+  echo "activate"
+  let window = newApplicationWindow(app)
+  window.title = "Empty Text View"
+  window.defaultSize = (800, 600)
+  let scrolledWindow = newScrolledWindow()
+  let view = newTextView() # gtksource.newView()
+  window.setChild(scrolledWindow) # add() for GTK3
+  scrolledWindow.setChild(view)
+  show(window) # showAll() for GTK3
+
+proc main =
+  let app = newApplication("org.gtk.example", {ApplicationFlag.handlesOpen})#, handlesCommandLine})
+  app.connect("startup", startup)
+  app.connect("activate", activate)
+  app.connect("command-line", commandLine)
+  # app.connect("handle_local_options", handleLocalOptions)
+  app.connect("open", open)
+  app.connect("name-lost", nameLost)
+  app.connect("shutdown", shutdown)
+  let argLen = paramCount() + 1
+  var argStr = newSeq[string](argLen)
+  for i in 0 ..< argLen:
+    argStr[i] = paramStr(i)
+  discard run(app, argLen, argStr) # we have to pass an argString to support open signal handling files
+
+main()