Re: problem getting PropertyBag

[Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com>]

Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've added support for bonobo-conf to an already bonobo enabled widget.
> Everything works fine on my machine, but on somebody elses, it fails
> when trying to get the config:/scintilla PropertyBag.
>
> The widget exposes the PropertyControl interface. In the get method of
> the bonobo_property_control_new, i first need to get the PropertyBag
> containing the widget's properties:
>
> CORBA_exception_init (&ev);
>
> bag = bonobo_get_object ("config:/scintilla", "Bonobo/PropertyBag",
> &ev);
> g_assert (!BONOBO_EX (&ev));
>
> The bonobo_get_object call fails (the assertion on the next line fails).
>
> Why does this fail?

Difficult to say. What version of bonobo-conf do you use (you need at least
0.7)? Maybe you can extract the code into a little test program and send it
to me? I will then be able to debug it for you.

- Dietmar

> The other person did a backtrace and came up with
> the following:
>
> #5  0x0805b6ca in get_impl (control=0x80eb2e8, page_number=0,
> closure=0x80d8cc8) at scintilla-property-control.c:111
> 111             g_assert (!BONOBO_EX (&ev));
> (gdb) p ev
> $1 = {_major = CORBA_USER_EXCEPTION, _repo_id = 0x80f2e5c
> "IDL:Bonobo/Moniker/UnknownPrefix:1.0", _params = 0x0, _any = 0x0}
> (gdb)
>
> I'm relatively new to linux programming, so the above doesn't tell me
> much. What kind of CORBA exception occurred here and why?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeroen
>
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