[Glade-users] WARNING **: Couldn't find pixmap file

[damon at karuna.uklinux.net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 12:06 +0200, Claus Behl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a problem with showing a pixmap-file:
>
> I have found a post at this list:
>
> > > / Is there any other way of my application to find the
> > />/ images other than having to do "make install" ???
> > />/
> > /
> >  
> I understand this question. I wonder where is the natural place  to look 
> for an image file?
>
>   image1 = create_pixmap (window1, "bq_d.jpg");
>
> Now i would expect that, a file "bq_d.jpg" in the working-directory 
> would be found. So putting the bin-file and the images in the same
> directory should work. But of course it dousnt work. It would help my 
> understanding very much, if someone can explain to me where to put the 
> image-files.

It is pretty confusing, I'm afraid.

The code for create_pixmap() is in the support.c file so you can read
it.

Are you creating a GNOME or a GTK+ project? For GNOME we use the
standard gnome_program_locate_file() to search for the pixmap.

For GTK+ Glade outputs an add_pixmap_directory() function to add
directories to be searched. In main.c it adds the standard installed
directory:
  add_pixmap_directory (PACKAGE_DATA_DIR "/" PACKAGE "/pixmaps");

PACKAGE_DATA_DIR is set in the Makefile.am.

Damon