Re: Stock items (button images / menu images etc)

[John Emmas <john creativepost co uk>]

On 14/12/2013 22:54, Jernej Simončič wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:39:39 +0000, John Emmas wrote:
>
> > by the end of the process (which usually
> > takes a couple of minutes) "temp.file" is invariably empty. I simply
> > cannot find any way (on Windows) of producing a correctly populated file.
> The program might be outputting to stderr, in which case you need to use
> gtk-update-icon-cache --force --ignore-theme-index --source
> builtin_icons stock-icons 2> temp.file
Sorry for the delay in replying Jernej, I got diverted onto a different 
project.

Just to recap....  I was having problems when using the utility 
"gtk-update-icon-cache.exe" as I couldn't make it redirect its output to 
a file.  I tried your suggestion about trapping stderr instead of stdout 
but unfortunately, that didn't work either.

I did discover though that the only way to redirect the utility's output 
successfully is to run as an Administrator.  If I run as a normal user I 
consistently end up with an empty target file. However, even running as 
an Administrator isn't foolproof.  It only works if I run from a Windows 
Command Prompt.  If I attempt to run gtk-update-icon-cache.exe from a 
script of some kind, redirection immediately stops working again.  It's 
incredibly frustrating.

Is the source code for gtk-update-icon-cache.exe available anywhere?  
Maybe I could get some clues about the problem if I could read the 
source code.

John