Re: gtk 2.4.3 on win32: menu icon problem

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, I wrote:

> The problem: accessing a menu that contains a stock icon (e.g. the 
> file open icon) causes a crash on Windows when the GTK program is 
> run in certain LANG environments.  I have tested this under XP, 
> running a trivial test program with one little menu item.  It works 
> fine in English, and also if I 'set LANG=it' or 'set LANG=de'.
>
> But if I 'set LANG=es' or 'set LANG=fr' the test app crashes when I 
> touch the menu.

After a fair amount of experimentation, I traced this to the glib20.mo 
files included in Tor's glib-2.4.2 runtime package,

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/glib-2.4.2.zip

My XP test system doesn't like them for some reason.

I regenerated the Spanish and French .mo files from the original glib 
2.4.2 po files, using msgfmt.exe from gettext 0.13.1, and the crashing 
problem is gone -- all other aspects of the setup unaltered.

Allin Cottrell