On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 07:53:22PM -0500, Travis Miller wrote:
I have another GLib question. Currently I am writing some code that
needs to perform some calculations every second. SO I want the function
called every second. So rather than using setitimer to create a SIGALRM
event that
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:28:24PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
...
So timeouts that try to catch up are not an absolute necessity, but they are
quite useful in some programs.
I think you already know it's very easy enough to make a timeouts that
try to catch up. what's more difficult is
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 05:22:08PM -0500, John Gotts wrote:
Hi, I'm working on solving an intermittent bug with our gtk+ 1.x/Glade 1.x
application, although my problem should be general enough that people more
accustomed to 2.x should be able to help.
We're embedding the GtkSheet widget as a
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:16:10PM -0500, Douglas Vechinski wrote:
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Does GTK+ or GLIB provide any type of repeating timers or alarms? I'm
looking for a portable way (Linux and XP). Unix has alarm and XP has
other timers I believe but was looking for something that might be
common to both.
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:34:22PM -0500, Douglas Vechinski wrote:
Thanks for the info but you now made me think of another question.
While in the callback, if I determine that I need to perform a task that
could take a while, do I need to be worried that the alarm or signal
could be
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:41:59AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 14:43 +0100, David Conley (FRD) wrote:
I'm hoping to use a tree store/view to create a layer typer system where
the higher up the tree an object is, the closer to the front of the screen
an object would be.
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:02:15PM -0500, Douglas Vechinski wrote:
I've been searching the GTK API trying to figure out what is probably a
simple question. How do I get the current value from a GtkHscale scale
bar?
When I'm having trouble finding a function I need for a given widget,
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 05:11:53PM -0500, Douglas Vechinski wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 13:31 -0700, Ben Johnson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 02:02:15PM -0500, Douglas Vechinski wrote:
I've been searching the GTK API trying to figure out what is probably a
simple question. How do
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:39:46AM +0200, Jochen Baier wrote:
hi,
i wonder what is the right procedure to do some cleanup if the user
logout from session
and the program is still alive. (Save file before exit etc)
I thought system (SIGHUP,...) is the right way, but i didnt find this
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:40:15PM -0400, Jon Oberheide wrote:
Greetings,
I have a client and server architecture that communicates using
GIOChannels. When the client is connected to the server and then
suddenly killed (via a kill -9 or some other signal that does not hang
up the
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:57:09AM +0200, David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
it is annoying, but not so bad imho.
It's the correct behaviour.
well, you're wrong. you don't understand what I'm talking about, and it
seems pretty clear that you don't care about trying to understand.
Why are you
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 12:36:04AM +0200, David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:57:32PM +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
If one setup a Label so that one can select the text of the label, one
get an annoying |-cursor at the beginning of the label. How can one
get rid of this?
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:49:00AM +1000, Timothy Stebbing wrote:
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widgets for 'alerting' the user to the widget. This would make the widget
blink/glow/throb/sparkle, depending on the gtk theme engine in use.
The primary use for this would be to notify the user about some change in
the
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:01:16PM -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote:
Hey, I'm developing an app in for windows using python and PyGTK, and it
sometimes locks up, and the locks up the entire windows xp interfrace. I'm
pretty certain that the main bug is in my code, not GTK, but I'm trying to
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:27:32AM +1000, Timothy Stebbing wrote:
Ben Johnson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:49:00AM +1000, Timothy Stebbing wrote:
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widgets for 'alerting' the user to the widget. This would make the widget
blink/glow/throb/sparkle, depending on the gtk theme
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:37:42AM -0700, peter wrote:
Hi,
I am building an application with GTK+ and I want to
communicate messages to the user in the form of tool
tips which are independent of buttons ...
I don't want my messages to be in a message box but I
want the message to show in
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:42:49AM +0100, abhi rocks wrote:
hi
Could someone please tell me how to access the
GtkEntry field in the GnomeDateEdit widget.
Or it would be cooler if someone could tell me how to
extract the date and time from time_t data type.
look at the
hey.
I'm using an embedded perl interpreter in my app right now. This is
source of some inconviniences, so I'm thinking about moving the perl
piece into a seperate process. In order to make this worthwhile I'll
need an interface that can work with the gtk main loop (i.e. something
that uses
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:48:20PM -0700, Ben Johnson wrote:
Hi.
I'm working with a touch screen, which I'm learning makes mouse-over
types of events sort of meaningless. Yet, they still occur.
I have a page full of toggle buttons and it can be difficult to
determine when one is down
Hey.
I made my first little wizard dialog a little while ago, and learned a
lot about the problems involved with making a wizard. In order to make
this process easier and less error prone, I thinking about making a
generalized wizard dialog.
first, does something like this already exist that I
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:34:49PM +0200, Richard Stellingwerff wrote:
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Which theme does this currently happen with? Because you should always
be able to see whether a button is pressed or not, even on mouse-over.
I've never messed with themes at all, so I have no idea what theme I'm
using.
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:00:30PM +0200, Richard Stellingwerff wrote:
...
As the author of Clearlooks, I got complaints about exactly this issue
from people using normal mouse input devices. The way I fixed it in
the engine, is by simply ignoring the prelight color for toggled
togglebuttons
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:53:12AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
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A custom theme could do whatever it wants ... both pieces of information
are passed to it. state_type and shadow_type.
can you give me some quick pointers about how to get started making a
custom theme? I MUST allow my users to
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 04:16:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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so my question remains: is it possible? was it ever thought of in the gtk+
design to allow for this possibility? or is it such that because the
resulting static application would be necessarily heavy (or for any
number of
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:01:43AM +0100, Francisco Santiago Capel Torres wrote:
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I have realized that in order to port it to GTK, I only need a very simple
XML
parser, a Date class and some classes to access databases. Here is where I
need the suppor from this list.
I'm starting to
Hi.
I'm working with a touch screen, which I'm learning makes mouse-over
types of events sort of meaningless. Yet, they still occur.
I have a page full of toggle buttons and it can be difficult to
determine when one is down. The easiest way to tell is by looking at
the button's color. The
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:09:20AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't make it any harder than needed :-p
# ls -l /proc/self/exe
That will show where the current shell executable file is located, and
hence its name.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -s -r
Linux 2.6.8
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l
Hi.
I'm running into an annoying little bug surprisingly often. Asking
here if it's known is a hell of a lot easier than searching a bug
database for it, and will probably work better. Is that an acceptable
use of this list though?
the bug: I'm not sure of the exact circumstances of the bug,
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 04:10:43PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 12:19 -0700, Ben Johnson wrote:
...
database for it, and will probably work better. Is that an acceptable
use of this list though?
No, it isn't.
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070 is what
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:11:23AM +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
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Code generation with Glade is silly. People should use libglade.
why do you think code generation is silly? why is libglade better?
isn't it sort of like the difference between 6 and a half dozen? I'm
just curious.
Thanks,
-
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:33:18PM -0400, Matt Crinklaw wrote:
I want to create a box that will scroll lines of text, each line will
be clickable and lead to a specific event. I want it to work pretty
much exactly exactly like the channel list in mIRC: you get a list of
channels, double click
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:32:52PM -0800, pan yawen wrote:
Hi,
I have to copy large files from a CD to the hard disk.
I want to use a progress bar to display the status of
copying the files.
Any one has ideas about implementing this in gtk.
I've never done this before, but here's an
Hi.
I have a loop that looks like this...
while( gtk_events_pending () )
{
printf(%s: will do: gtk_main_iteration , __FUNCTION__);
gtk_main_iteration ();
}
If I understand right, that should be pretty standard GTK+ code. Sometimes
when my program hits this loop, gtk_events_pending()
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 07:04:47AM +, Claudio Polegato Jr. wrote:
Hi,
Maybe the line
printf(%s: will do: gtk_main_iteration , __FUNCTION__);
into the loop create a new event to iteration, then drop this line and
test.
my loop looks more like this:
printf(%s: entering
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:26:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I imagine select() doesn't block too long because my program is keeping
the cpu so busy. Is it possible I'm screwing up my environment somehow
that's causing this breakage? Am I using gtk_events_pending()
incorrectly?
I'm using setitimer() to run certain callbacks after a given interval.
(you might suggest that I use g_timeout_add() instead and not worry
about it... and I may end up doing that, but not now.)
using setitimer has been working pretty well, until just recently. I'm
not sure what happened, but it
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 01:53:00AM -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
...
so... as always, I could be wrong, but it kinda looks like glib is
messing with the SIGALRM signal and spoiling my fun. surprises! I love
I'm wrong. a perl module I'm calling into is mucking with signals.
grr... Sorry
Hey.
I'm using a dialog to initiate a network action that blocks for a long
time. I want to update a label on the dialog immediately prior to
getting started with the network crap. normally I just update a label
with the gtk_label_set_markup() function and see it happen on the
screen. But,
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:56:42AM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
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call gtk_main_loop from your blocking operation.
if I call gtk_main_loop() from within my blocking function, won't
gtk_main_loop() block and stop my function from doing anything useful?
I'll have to make gtk_main_loop() return
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 11:42:23AM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
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gtk_main_loop returns. I occasionnaly use:
while (gtk_events_pending ())
gtk_main_loop ();
perfect. :) Thank you.
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 12:12:53PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
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- If I set expand on *any* widgets to FALSE, they end up too small.
Then either add padding to them (or set a minimum size with
gtk_widget_set_size_request()). If a widget is to small when not
set to expand, then it will be
btw. during our conversation, I've come to believe that the interaction
between the GtkAlignment object and the EXPAND and FILL flags isn't
working as the documentation implies it should. EXPAND and FILL, if set
on all widgets should cause the available space to be consumed. If the
size of one
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:40:45AM +0200, Karlsson, Erik wrote:
Hi,
Have you tried GtkWidget's gtk_widget_set_size_request function. It can be
used
to increase the default size of the widget. It is not perhaps good practice to
use it because it defines minimum size of the widget that can't
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:19:17AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
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GtkAlignment is all about the amount of space that a widget takes up
*within the space that it was allocated*.
To determine to which child of a container excess space gets allocated,
look at the 'expand' parameter of
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:56:30PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:32 -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
this is more or less what I'm doing...
mydialog = gtk_dialog_new ();
gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW (mydialog), Payment Amount);
gtk_window_set_position
Hi.
I have a hard time getting widgets to take up as much of the screen as I
want them to. Is there a trick to getting widgets to take up more
space? I set the expand and fill properties on everything because I
want all available space to be consumed. Inevitably I wind up with some
widgets
Hi.
I made a class that defines several _new() functions, which take various
parameters. I now want to subclass from this and keep my various _new()
functions with more or less the same parameters, and I want the behavior
to stay the same too. I don't see anything in the documentation about
how
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:47:15PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
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Ben Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I made a class that defines several _new() functions, which take various
parameters. I now want to subclass from this and keep my various
Hi
I'm wondering if I should cease and desist. I'm using the GSList and
the GAllocator in way that they may not be designed for. The reason I
am doing it this way is I want to allocate space for my list nodes and
my data in the same big chunk. In other words, I'm creating list nodes
that
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:10:33AM +0100, Xavier Ordoquy wrote:
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:01 -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
Hey.
I'm thinking about using python instead though because I hear adding
callbacks in C to python handler code is relatively simple. (it's about
time I learned python
Hey.
I'm thinking about making some kind of thing that will allow me to
handle callbacks in either python or perl. Can you help me pick a
language? (to be clear: I'm planning to do something similar to Gimp:
the main program is written in C but can handle some events in perl.)
I was planning
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 09:45:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone say with certainty whether g_try_malloc() and g_free() are
thread-safe? I've spent considerable time searching mailing lists and
googling and have found only sketchy opinions at best.
glib itself is thread
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:28:12PM -0800, James Frye wrote:
Ali,
Thanks. I'll have a look for future reference, but I figured out a quick
dirty hack that does what I need. I have the GTK menu program start
gnuplot as a pipe, then re-parent gnuplot's plot window into a GTK widget.
So I
I was given and found some answers to my questions. thought I'd share
for the good of the curious.
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 03:41:42PM -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
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how do you remove the risk? you have to compile libc with _REENTRANT?
g_malloc(), g_free(), and associated functions are wrappers
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:48:49AM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
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use configure --enable-static --disable-dynamic doesn't work?
no, that doesn't seem to do anything at all. I'm using the configure
script that glade made for me to build my app. Should it work?
[EMAIL
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 10:05:39AM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
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Add:
AC_ENABLE_STATIC
AX_DISABLE_SHARED
to configure.in (or configure.ac), run autoconf then configure.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/hpntpos$ vi configure.in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/hpntpos$ autoconf
configure.in:14:
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 06:44:15PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/hpntpos$ vi configure.in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/hpntpos$ autoconf
configure.in:14: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ENABLE_STATIC
If this token and others are legitimate, please
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:17:59PM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
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It seems that those flags are intended for libraries production. To have
static linking of the libraries in the executable, you must probably
list the libraires in the LDFLAGS, i.e. /usr/lib/libglib.a instead of
-lglib, which
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:48:14PM -0800, James Frye wrote:
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So how can I statically link my program (or at least the GtkGl library
part of it) so that the executable will run on any system? There doesn't
seem to be a make or configure option to even make static libs...
huh. as far as I
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 06:54:04AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
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I'm wondering this because I see some operations being performed on a
GSlist in the widget's code, and I don't see any locking taking place.
Terrible idea. That should not happen. If it does, you need to
redesign your program.
Hi.
I can configure my Debian unstable gnome apps ring visibly when the
system bell rings. I like that. Also, I noticed that Windows XP will
do something similar when a modal dialogue is active and you try to
click on some other piece of the application to get your attention. I
like the
Hi.
short version:
I want to use a GObject as a thing that can hold simple types (like ints
and pointers) that does reference counting. Is that possible? I want
to use it like a hashtable that will garbage collect itself when all the
references to it are gone.
more explaining:
I have a simple
Hi.
Looking at the code of GtkRadioButton, I have to question whether it's
thread safe. I don't use threads (yet) in my application... and
there's a good chance I won't at all, and I don't really even know how
they work. (on Linux are they implemented with help from the clone()
system call?)
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 08:27:55AM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
Le vendredi 28 janvier 2005 ?? 15:22 -0800, Ben Johnson a ??crit :
I want to understand how interfaces are defined and used/implemented.
...
It's a GInterface object. When creating a new class of object, you
derive it from
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:47:08PM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
Le samedi 29 janvier 2005 ?? 10:10 -0800, Ben Johnson a ??crit :
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 08:27:55AM +0100, Jean Br?fort wrote:
Le vendredi 28 janvier 2005 ?? 15:22 -0800, Ben Johnson a ??crit :
I want to understand how
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:03:59PM -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
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gathered that an object of GnomeCanvasGroupExtClass is by definition
also a G_TYPE_PRINTABLE. In the code you just posted...
if (GNOME_IS_CANVAS_GROUP_EXT(item))
gnome_canvas_group_ext_print
I need some advice. I'm used to working in C, so I'm not used to making
decisions about when to create sub-classes and when I should just use
callbacks.
One feature of the app I'm making is a global inactivity timer. When
the timer goes off the app does a locked screen saver kind of thing.
The
I want to understand how interfaces are defined and used/implemented.
The docs say, for instance:
GtkButton implements AtkImplementorIface
Is AtkImplementorIface a real thing? How does the GtkButton implement
it? I haven't been able to find docs about this. Can someone point me
in the right
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:25:05AM -0500, Diego Zuccato wrote:
Ben Johnson wrote:
Why not adding another (maybe hidden?) radiobutton?
This way you haven't to worry:
* The user can deselect simply by selecting the None selected buton
* If you hide it, you have to programmatically select
Hi.
I'm working to create a system in which the user will define a large
menu layout for fast, easy use on a touch screen. For me, that means
using lots of large toggle buttons that can be grouped in various ways.
Some of the toggle buttons will be in simple Radio Button like groups.
Others will
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 05:27:08PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ben ...
IMHO I think that it is not a good idea , because the radio button's
definitions, in essence, do not allow that none button to be active.
Maybe, to customize the radio button, and create a new widget based on it
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 01:27:14PM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 13:24 -0800, Ben Johnson wrote:
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like a set of related toggle buttons. Now I want them to behave *more*
like toggle buttons. The problem is, there is always at least one of
the buttons selected. I want
Hi. My name is Ben Johnson. This is my first time posting, and I'm
pretty much a Gtk newbie.
I've successfully created a set of radio buttons that look and act a lot
like a set of related toggle buttons. Now I want them to behave *more*
like toggle buttons. The problem is, there is always
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