Re: off topic question

[Jeffrey Goddard <moosewood mooseroot org>]

got a couple of replies, all with bits.

here's what worked for anyone who runs into this in the future:

const gchar* filename;

no more ugly warning message and code still works!
Jeffrey

On Friday 26 July 2002 12:02, you wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Jeffrey Goddard wrote:
> > ok, i realize this is probably off topic, but can someone explain what
> > the compiler is trying to tell me about these statements?
> >
> > callbacks.c:27: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer
> > target type
> >
> >    gchar *filename;
> >    filename =
> > gtk_file_selection_get_filename(GTK_FILE_SELECTION(file_select_box));
>
> Make that "const *gchar filename".  You're not allowed to mess with
> the string returned by gtk_file_selection_get_filename().
>
> Allin Cottrell.
>
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