Re: Strange Problems w/ gnome_error_dialog

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 12:05, Eric Mader wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use the following simple method to issue error dialogs in the Gnome 
> version of a cross-platform application:
> 
> void GnomeGUISupport::postErrorMessage(const char *message, const char 
> *title)
> {
>    gchar *s;
>    GtkWidget *error;
> 
>    s = g_strconcat(title, ":\n", message, NULL);
>    error = gnome_error_dialog(s);
>    gtk_widget_show(error);
>    g_free(s);
> }
> 
> Sometimes when this method is called I see the following error message 
> on the console:
> 
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1554 (gtk_widget_show_all): 
> assertion 'widget != NULL' failed.

I'd run with --g-fatal-warnings and get a backtrace. Nothing above looks
suspicious.

Regards,
						Owen

(This looks like GNOME-1.2, so basically off-topic for this list in 
point of fact; if you were using GTK+-2.x, GtkMessageDialog provides
a replacement for gnome_error_dialog()...)