Re: [gtk-list] Verifying fonts

[Emile Snyder <emile reed edu>]

I had exactly this proplem.  Noticed that it happened only with fonts with
long names.  I had been strcpy()'ing into a char buffer that was too
short.  Hope this helps.

-emile

On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, David Allen wrote:

> 
> I've been developing a package that uses the font selection dialog, which 
> does the standard thing to get a font name, and then loads it and starts
> to use it.
> 
> The problem is that one of the users of my package has complained that 
> sometimes he will pick a font, and click ok, and the program will segfault.
> The font handling code that I have written seems to be ok, and maybe I was
> being naive, but I assumed that the font selection box would only make 
> available options that were useable, but I guess not.
> 
> Is there a way to verify that the font is loadable/useable using GTK+?
> In the interim, I've been using XQueryFont and a few other xlib calls, but
> I'd rather do it in GTK+ to keep things consistant.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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