Re: [Newbie]: $buffer troubles

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandrakesoft com>]

Stefano Esposito <yankeegohome email it> writes:

> Hi all. I'm a newbie at GUI programming so, forgive me if the question has an obvious answer :)
> 
> When i try to run something like this
> 
> my $view = Gtk2::TextView->new();
> ...
> $menu_new->signal_connect('activate', \&new, $view);
> ...
> sub new {
> 	my $view = $_[1];
> 	my $local_buff = $view->get_buffer();
> 	my $start_iter;
> 	my $end_iter;
> 	
> 	$local_buff->get_start_iter($start_iter);
> 	$local_buff->get_end_iter($end_iter);
> ...
> }
> 
> I obtain this runtime error message:
> 
> *** unhandled exception in callback:
> ***   Usage: get_start_iter(buffer) at ./main.pl line 128.
> ***  ignoring at ./main.pl line 109.
> 
> Can anyone tell me where's my error?

the usual design choice i usually complain about, aka gtk2-perl just
silently ignores exceptions in callbacks