// GLib.GString.cs : Marshaler for GStrings 
//
// Author: Mike Kestner  <mkestner@ximian.com>
//
// Copyright (c) 2004 Novell, Inc.
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
// modify it under the terms of version 2 of the Lesser GNU General 
// Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
// Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
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// License along with this program; if not, write to the
// Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
// Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.


namespace Gst.GLib {
	using System;
	using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
	
	public class GString : GLib.IWrapper {

		IntPtr handle;

		[DllImport("libglib-2.0-0.dll")]
		static extern IntPtr g_string_free (IntPtr mem, bool free_segments);

		~GString ()
		{
			g_string_free (handle, true);
		}

		[DllImport("libglib-2.0-0.dll")]
		static extern IntPtr g_string_new (IntPtr text);

		public GString (string text) 
		{
			IntPtr native_text = Marshaller.StringToPtrGStrdup (text);
			handle = g_string_new (native_text);
			Marshaller.Free (native_text);
		}

		public IntPtr Handle {
			get {
				return handle;
			}
		}
		
		public static string PtrToString (IntPtr ptr) 
		{
			return Marshaller.Utf8PtrToString (ptr);
		}
	}
}