Re: failing to get PangoContext

[Tony Graham <Tony Graham Sun COM>]

Daniel Glassey <danglassey ntlworld com> wrote at Sat, 18 Oct 2003 21:45:32 +0100:
> Hi,
> When I try and run a pretty minimal program below which just opens up a 
> display and tries to get a PangoContext from it it fails with the error 
> below.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?

Yes.  Well, something simple but not necessarily obvious until you've
stumbled as you have.

Add:

  g_type_init();

before you do anything with GObject or any library that uses
GObjects.  In your case, add it before you call any Pango functions.

As the g_type_init() documentation says, "Prior to any use of the type
system, g_type_init() has to be called to initialize the type system
and assorted other code portions (such as the various fundamental type
implementations or the signal system)."

Regards,


Tony Graham
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