Re: help with assertion `text != NULL' failed

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:19:10PM +0530, poonam chokshi wrote:
> I'm trying to keep a check on the  text entry boxes that are empty. 
> Unfortunately,when i perform the routine for the empty text entry, i
> get the following error:
>
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkentry.c: line 3361 (gtk_entry_set_text):
> assertion `text != NULL' failed
>
> It's not a show stopper, but I'd rather avoid it.

CRITICAL messages are just a small step from crash.  That is,
if someone didn't put the assertion there (or assertions were
disabled compile-time), it would immediately crash.

> Isn't there a way to create  text entry with nothing in it?  I mean,
> besides the quick hack of stashing " " or the NULL in there, coz i
> checked for the both and i am still getting that error.......

What can be more empty than an empty string ""?

Yeti


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