Re: An 'oldie' question... GtkCList anyone?

["Tomas Soltys" <tomas soltys range-software com>]

Hi,

try to declare str as:

  char *str[4];

Regards,

Tomas

> Hello people.
>
> In the process of converting an old program from mSQL to MySQL, I found a
> couple of potential traps and optimized a couple of functions. I now have
> a problem with adding lines into a GtkCList using gtk_clist_append. The
> code is like this:
>
> char *bff, str[4];
>
> bff = strdup("abc|def|ghi|etc"); Just to show bff has to freed later
> splitline(bff, str);          This puts pointers into str to each of
>                               the substrings (at the start and
>                               after each |, converting them to \0 )
> gtk_clist_append(clist, str); Add the line,
> g_free(bff);
>
> It looks as if the g_free happens before the append, because gibberish
> appears on the screen.
>
> Is there a way to assure the append is finished before the g_free?
>
> John
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