[gst-devel] get element type name

[Edward Hervey]

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 11:25 -0800, Wes Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Let's say I have a udpsrc element named "my_src" created thus:
> 
>          recvSrc = gst_element_factory_make( "udpsrc" ,      "my_src"  ));
> 
> If I use this construct, I get "GstUdpSrc":
> 
>          g_print( "%s\n", g_type_name( G_OBJECT_TYPE( recvSrc )) );
> 
> What U'd like to get, instead, is "udpsrc".  Is there a function to do that? 
> 
> And what are the proper things to call these two items.  

 So you want the factory name ?

 maybe there's a function to get the factory from an element
 and maybe there's a function to get the name of a factory

 hint : gst_<something>_get_<somethingelse>

    Edward


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wes
> 
> 
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