Re: Setting list values

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Tony Houghton <gnome realh co uk> writes:
> In <3D9D200F 6080703 taliesin ca>, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
> 
> > Strange,
> > 
> > we are using lists for some of the preferences in gnumeric without 
> > problems whatsoever...
> 
> Thanks, I had a look at your source and worked out what my problem was.
> I was building a list of GConfValue structs and passing that to
> gconf_value_set_list, but what you're obviously supposed to do is pass a
> list of the values themselves (ie plain ints, strings etc).
> 
> I think the documentation is wrong. At
> <http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/gconf/gconf-gconf-value.html#GCONF-VALUE-SET-LIST>
> it says:
> 
> : The list argument should be a GSList of GConfValue. Each GConfValue in
> : the list must have the same type, and this type must be specified in
> : advance with gconf_value_set_list_type().
> 
> I read that as unambiguous instruction to use a list of GConfValue, not
> of string or int.
> 

gconf_value_set_list() _does_ take a list of GConfValue as far as I
know. But you are using gconf_client_set_list().

Havoc