Draft of implementation using gresources safe api.

hammond-gtk/src/resources/resources.xml

@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<gresources>
-  <gresource prefix="/org/gtk/hammond">
-      <file>banner.png</file>
-  </gresource>
-</gresources>

hammond-gtk/src/static_resource.rs

@@ -2,12 +2,22 @@ extern crate gio_sys;
 extern crate glib_sys;
 extern crate libc;
 
+use gio::{resources_register, Error, Resource};
+use glib::Bytes;
+
 use std;
 
-// https://github.com/sunnyone/gresource-gtkrs-example/blob/master/src/static_resource.rs
-// TODO: slomo mentioned that the unsafe could be removed and use a safe API instead.
-pub fn init() {
-    let res_bytes = include_bytes!("resources/resources.gresource");
+pub fn init() -> Result<(), Error> {
+    // load the gresource binary at build time and include/link it into the final binary.
+    let res_bytes = include_bytes!("../resources/resources.gresource");
+
+    // // Create Resource it will live as long the value lives.
+    // let resource = Resource::new_from_data(&Bytes::from(&res_bytes))?;
+    // let resource = Resource::new_from_data(&res_bytes.into())?;
+
+    // // Register the resource so It wont be dropped and will continue to live in memory.
+    // resources_register(&resource);
+
     unsafe {
         // gbytes and resource will not be freed
         let gbytes =
@@ -15,4 +25,6 @@ pub fn init() {
         let resource = gio_sys::g_resource_new_from_data(gbytes, std::ptr::null_mut());
         gio_sys::g_resources_register(resource);
     }
+
+    Ok(())
 }

hammond-gtk/src/views/podcasts_view.rs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ use hammond_data::index_feed::Database;
 use widgets::podcast::*;
 use static_resource;
 
+
 fn show_empty_view(stack: &gtk::Stack) {
     let builder = gtk::Builder::new_from_string(include_str!("../../gtk/empty_view.ui"));
     let view: gtk::Box = builder.get_object("empty_view").unwrap();
@@ -19,6 +20,8 @@ fn show_empty_view(stack: &gtk::Stack) {
 }
 
 fn populate_flowbox(db: &Database, stack: &gtk::Stack, flowbox: &gtk::FlowBox) {
+    static_resource::init().expect("Something went wrong with the resource file initialization.");
+
     let podcasts = {
         let db = db.lock().unwrap();
         dbqueries::get_podcasts(&db)
@@ -63,9 +66,12 @@ fn create_flowbox_child(db: &Database, pd: &Podcast) -> gtk::FlowBoxChild {
 
 fn configure_banner(db: &Database, pd: &Podcast, banner: &gtk::Image, banner_title: &gtk::Label) {
     // TODO: move .ui files into gresources and refactor.
-    static_resource::init();
+    // static_resource::init().expect("Something went wrong with the resource file
+    // initialization.");
+    info!("I RUN");
 
     let bann = Pixbuf::new_from_resource_at_scale("/org/gtk/hammond/banner.png", 256, 256, true);
+    info!("{:?}", bann);
     if let Ok(b) = bann {
         banner.set_from_pixbuf(&b);