Re: How to get stuff out of a GValue?

[Dan H <dunno stoptrick com>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:11:17 +0100
Benoît Dejean <benoit placenet org> wrote:

> > - GValue left_attach;
> > + GValue left_attach = { 0, };
> > +
> > + g_value_init (&left_attach);
> > +
> 
> I always though that this requirement was error prone. You just get
> to initialize your GValue twice to make it OK. A lot of beginners
> hit this error. The doc says "A zero-filled (uninitialized) GValue
> structure." which looks like an oxymoron :)

Yeah, the GValue stuff is something one really needs to dig first.

Although I've found out the hard way that in this case I didn't need a GValue in the first place. I was mislead by a mistake in the docs (will make a separate post about that).

Thanks,
--D.