[Glade-users] Glade / Gtk+ version mismatch and fatal errors

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

Not quite.

Glade introspects at runtime the properties and signals on GTK+
widgets, an older Glade will still give you access to whatever
properties and signals are available on the GTK+ you are running Glade
against. So an older Glade with a newer GTK+ will still expose new
properties, it will just have an even more outdated internal catalog
and know less about which new properties were introduced in which
version of GTK+.

You could roll back both GTK+ and Glade in your dev environment, or
you could use Glade 3.19 which has *most* new properties and signals
in the catalog.

Better still, if you have a sandbox with GTK+ 3.14, you can use the
glade-previewer program in that sandbox to verify your Glade file and
at least catch these warnings before deploying.

Cheers,
    -Tristan


On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Kasak <d.j.kasak.dk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tristan. Thanks for the reply.
>
> I'm deploying stuff on Windows ( and I'm struggling to build Gtk+ on Windows
> - I managed it at one point, but I had to pull in patches from all over the
> place, and they no longer apply cleanly ). After more testing, I'm seeing
> this kind of issue all over the place now :( I guess the only solution is to
> roll back to an earlier version of Glade that matches the target Gtk+
> version I'm deploying to.
>
> Dan
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Tristan Van Berkom
> <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > Glade 3.18 has been a bit stale for quite some time, I recommend that,
> > if it's possible for you, to build a Glade 3.19 dev snapshot for work
> > purposes, it has a lot more integration of newer widgets.
> >
> > Regarding your deployment issue, when in doubt, refer to the GTK+
> > documentation[0], note that the wide-handle property was introduced in
> > GTK+ 3.16.
> >
> > Unfortunately what's happened here is that Glade has introspected the
> > wide-handle property at runtime, but since Glade's catalog has not
> > seen any update for a while in Glade 3.18... it does not know what
> > version wide-handle was introduced in... we admittedly need better
> > integration with system GIR files (which I think by now should be
> > providing the 'Since' information) for this to be better automated.
> >
> > Best,
> >     -Tristan
> >
> >
> > [0]:https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkPaned.html#GtkPaned--wide-handle
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 8:20 AM, Daniel Kasak <d.j.kasak.dk at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hi all.
> > >
> > > I just created a builder file with Glade-3.18.3. I left the target
> > > version
> > > as the default ( 3.18 ) and deployed to a system with gtk-3.14.3. I got
> > > an
> > > error ( which prevented the window from opening at all ):
> > >
> > > *** unhandled exception in callback:
> > > ***   Invalid property: GtkPaned.wide_handle on line 24 at
> > > c:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Gtk3.pm line 544.
> > > ***   ignoring at c:/starberry/perl/site/lib/Gtk3.pm line 318.
> > >
> > > So I went back into glade, loaded this builder file, went to File ==>
> > > Properties and looked at the 'Toolkit version required' area.
> > >
> > > The *latest* was 3.12 - which is *earlier* than my gtk version on the
> > > system
> > > I'm deploying to. Anyway I set it back to 3.8, clicked the 'verify'
> > > button (
> > > there were no version mismatches ), saved, deployed, and tried again.
> > > Unfortunately, I get the same error.
> > >
> > > I worked around the issue by unsetting the 'wide handle' toggle on the
> > > paned
> > > widget.
> > >
> > > It might be better for whatever's throwing this error to make it
> > > *non*-fatal.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
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