Re: misc and a question...

[James Steward <jamessteward optusnet com au>]

On 29/12/11 11:05, Gary Kline wrote:
>   ... due to people on this list who have been patient and
> 'splained things ... and who have NOT said: 'go read the man page'
> --well, nutshell, in ~ 3 weeks, i'm starting to see how gtk works.
>
> i just learned that TRUE == 1 and not 0.  i haven't used the access()
> call in awhile.  i am trying to catch catch errors before they crop
> up.
>
> the way i see my application being used, there won't be   any xterms
> or konsoles open to print a stderr or stdout.  So: is there a way in
> gtk to have a message dialog open that prints warning or whatever to
> the new user?

#define eprintf(...) do { \
        GtkWidget *dialog; \
        dialog = gtk_message_dialog_new ((GtkWindow *)window, \
                        GTK_DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT, \
                        GTK_MESSAGE_ERROR, \
                        GTK_BUTTONS_CLOSE, \
                        __VA_ARGS__); \
        gtk_dialog_set_default_response(GTK_DIALOG (dialog), GTK_RESPONSE_CLOSE); \
        gtk_dialog_run (GTK_DIALOG (dialog)); \
        gtk_widget_destroy (dialog); \
} while (0)

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JS.