[Glade-users] Gdk-ERROR in Gnome Application Window

[damon ximian com (Damon Chaplin)]

(Sorry for the late reply. I've been visiting Boston for a week.)


Dean Schumacher wrote:
> Damon Chaplin wrote:

> > You could try adding this to glade/main.c, just before the call to
> > glade_init():
> >
> >    gtk_widget_push_visual (gdk_imlib_get_visual ());
> >
> > That would hopefully make all the Glade windows try to use the same
> > visual. (The one that imlib wants to use for drawing graphics.)
> > I'm guessing a bit, though.
> >
> > Damon
>
> Yes, it is a Solaris box. I tried your suggestion above, but
> unfortunately, that just made it worse. Now it aborts with a
> "BadMatch" error at startup and doesn't even bring up the Glade
> application.
>
> Our plan is to use Glade on a Linux box to develop our GUI, then
> copy the XML files over to Solaris, where our application is to be
> developed. We'll use libglade on Solaris to display the GUI windows
> and our application source code will be in C++.
>
> The assumption is that the XML files will be portable, and that
> we can call the GTK+ and libglade C library functions from C++.
> Do you see any problem with this approach?

That should be OK, except for this problem with visuals/colormaps.

If anyone can track down this problem on Solaris I'd be grateful.
(It may help if you run glade with '--sync', so that all X calls
are synchronous. Then you know exactly which X call is causing the
problem.)

Damon