Re: How to get stuff out of a GValue?

[Benoît Dejean <benoit placenet org>]

Le lundi 19 novembre 2007 Ã 11:33 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi a Ãcrit :
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 12:18 +0100, Dan H wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:56:35 +0000
> > Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Any hints?
> > >
> > > just one page further:
> > >
> > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/stable/gobject-Standard-Parameter-and-Value-Types.html
> >
> > Ah, I'm using the Debian-supplied version 2.12.4, and your page refers to 2.14.3. Thanks. I guess it's 
> > just missing from my docs.
>
> nope: it's been there for ages. :-)
>
> > As it is, I'm having much more fundamental problems. I'm trying to do this to a GtkWidget *child inside 
> > GtkTable *table:
> > ---------------------
>
> - GValue left_attach;
> + GValue left_attach = { 0, };
> +
> + g_value_init (&left_attach);
> +

I always though that this requirement was error prone. You just get to initialize
your GValue twice to make it OK. A lot of beginners hit this error. The
doc says "A zero-filled (uninitialized) GValue structure." which looks
like an oxymoron :)
-- 
BenoÃt Dejean
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