Re: GtktreeView & Model segmentation fault

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

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 11:16:04AM -0800, Van H Tran wrote:
> I get a "Segmentation fault" in a gtktreeview i'm
> using. Basically, it's a Treeview with expandable
> folders (like a file browser) 
>
> The problem is: The program crashes very randomly when
> i just try to click to expand/collapse the folders,
> particularly when the tree has depth >= 3. After a
> certain number of clicks (sometimes 10, sometimes
> more), i get a segmentation fault. Inserting debugging
> messages doesn't help either as it also crashes at
> some random instruction...
>  So i'm just clueless and can't track what exactly
> went wrong here. The randomness really buggers me.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on this? Is there some
> error with my GtkModel or memory allocation, possibly?
> Some common error with GtkTreeView that i am missing?
> Or what tools can i use track this problem down? 
> The code is rather messy so i don't want to post it
> here.

Well, I'd recommend to use valgrind in such case.  If it is
indeed a memory problem chances are you'll get it reported
where it occurs instead where the app finally crashes.

Yeti


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