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RE: GTK & BSD

• Posted by Ron Tarrant <rtarrant at sympatico.ca> May 12, 2004
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irv mullins wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten EuGTK to work with FreeBSD?

Thanks for posting this, Irv. When I didn't see any replies after the 
first day, I started hacking the eugtk2 code.

I've managed to eliminate the first gMessage error I mentioned to you 
(Invalid function: g_object_ref) and all its bretheren who followed. 
This error was spit out by gMessage whenever a call was made to either 
func() or proc() in method.e.

To solve this, I added an arguement ('which_lib' in an attempt to follow 
your naming conventions) to each of these functions to ID the library 
from which the function (ie. g_object_ref) was being called. I then went 
through each eugtk2 include file and used the library identifier 
constants (as declared in wrapper.e) in each call to func() and proc(). 
For internal eugtk2 calls I simply used an empty string to maintain the 
argument count. Not an elegant solution, I know, but this process got 
eugtk2 through a vast amount of the initialization code without 
problems.

Now I'm on to the next gMessage error: "Invalid GDK object: pixbuf"

This seems to be happening during a call to the function newClass() in 
class.e. The statement:

      gtkfunction = sprintf("gtk_%s_get_type",{name})

builds a function call to gtk_pixbuf_get_type which I can't find in the 
GDK or GDK Pixbuf APIs. I'm thinking it should actually be 
gdk_pixbuf_new if the pixbuf is being created in memory or 
gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file if a file is being loaded. Either way, my next 
move is to try massaging the newClass() function in an attempt to bend 
things to my evil way.

But, there is one thing I don't understand. In wrapper.e one of the 
global constants for library access is named PIXBUF. In pixbuf.e there 
is another global constant named PIXBUF that (I believe) is a handle for 
the pixbuf created during initialization. Aren't these in conflict?

wrapper.e includes controls.e which in turn includes pixbuf.e so they 
both exist at the same time in the same namespace, don't they? Or am I 
missing something?

Colour me confused, please, and you can do it in a pixbuf. 

-Ron T.