[Mono-list] embedding mono and returning GList

[Miguel de Icaza]

>
> I'd like to call a managed method from c which returns a GLib.List.
> I seem to be unable to do this,  however..
> my managed code looks like:
>
> public GLib.List Test()
>  {
>         GLib.List list = new GLib.List(typeof(string));
>         list.Append("eins");
>         list.Append("zwei");
>         list.Append("drei");
>         list.Append("vier");
>
>         return list;
>  }
>
> my unmanaged code looks like:
>
> MonoObject *o = mono_runtime_invoke (method, instance, NULL, &ex);
> GList *list = (GList *)o;
>

That is because the managed GList object is merely a wrapper around the real
GList.

What you are getting back is not a pointer to the C GList, but a pointer to
the managed GList;   What you need to do is return the unmanaged pointer
that is wrapped by the C# GList, that would be the GList.Handle.

Miguel
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