Problem setting textoverlay properties in Rust

[Guru Govindan]

Thanks a lot Sebastian!
I completely missed this. That worked!


On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 12:21 AM Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Wed, 2022-12-28 at 00:14 -0800, Guru Govindan via gstreamer-devel wrote:
>
> I am trying to set some clockoverlay/textoverlay on my video in rust in a
> dynamic pipeline.
> I am having issues setting the property of the element specifically
> valignment and halignment.
>
> It seems to not like either string (which is what we set in a command line
> pipeline) or as an integer.
>
> I get the following error
>
> ```
> thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value:
> BoolError { message: "property 'valignment' of type 'GstClockOverlay' can't
> be set from the given type (expected: 'GstBaseTextOverlayVAlign', got:
> 'gchararray')", filename:
> "/home/ggovindan/.cargo/git/checkouts/gtk-rs-core-7be42ca38bd6361c/0afcb34/glib/src/
> object.rs", function: "glib::object", line: 3475 }',
> /home/ggovindan/.cargo/git/checkouts/gtk-rs-core-7be42ca38bd6361c/0afcb34/glib/src/object.rs:2372
> :53
> note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a
> backtrace
> ```
>
>
> As the error suggests, the property is not of a string type ("gchararray")
> but a specific enum.
> You can use e.g.
>   clockoverlay.set_property_from_str("valignment", "bottom")
> or make use of the glib EnumClass API.
>
> Also in your code the `to_string()` calls are not needed.
>
> --
>
> Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · https://www.centricular.com
>
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