Re: gtk_init_with_args behavior

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sun, 20 May 2018, Miroslav Rajcic wrote:

> I've been doing it exactly like that in my own program, first getting the 
> UTF-16 from Windows API, then converting to UTF-8 using g_utf16_to_utf8.

Thanks, I've now been able to confirm for myself that that works 
fine.

> IMO, hooking this with gtk_init_with_args is not needed, GTK can use the 
> standard args of the program, passed via "main()" function parameters,
> but you will bypass that mechanism completely and use API to fetch UTF-16 
> process parameters directly from OS.

gtk_init_with_args is still useful in my case: it automatically 
screens out any command-line arguments that are just option flags or 
parameters, via the GOptionEntry mechanism, leaving only a filename 
argument to which my program has to respond (but which may be broken 
in plain argv). Fortunately, it works fine after conversion via 
g_utf16_to_utf8. So my workflow is:

GetCommandLineW
CommandLineToArgvW
convert array of UTF-16 strings to UTF-8
pass the converted array to gtk_init_with_args

Allin Cottrell

ref: 
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2018-May/msg00052.html
and following