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

[John Emmas <john creativepost co uk>]

On 06/01/2014 17:29, John Emmas wrote:
> On 06/01/2014 16:33, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 03:11:46PM +0000, John Emmas wrote:
> > > Maybe I could get some clues about the problem if I could read the 
> > > source code.
> > It is essentially in this file:
> >
> > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/updateiconcache.c
>
> Thanks Patrick.  It seems to use g_printf() for writing to stdout. I 
> might try rebuilding it tomorrow to use printf() - just to see if that 
> makes any difference.

I tried a rebuild this morning.  As it turned out, I didn't need to 
change anything in the source code.  Simply rebuilding with MSVC 
improved things enormously.  Here's what seems to happen with the 
official exe (presumably cross-compiled from Linux??)

I launch the exe using this command:-

      gtk-update-icon-cache --force --ignore-theme-index --source 
builtin_icons  stock-icons

1) If I issue the above command from a Command Prompt (as an 
Administrator) I see a bunch of output in the command window.  By 
tacking "> some_file" onto the end, I could capture that output and 
redirect it to "some_file".

2) However....  if I DIDN'T launch the Command Prompt as an 
Administrator, the exe's output doesn't go to the command window. 
Instead, a second command window gets opened and the output gets sent 
there.  Presumably, that 2nd window has its own independent stdout.  
Therefore I can't successfully capture (or redirect) its output.

There's some evidence that the official (cross-compiled??) exe is 
behaving differently with different versions of Windows.  For me, it 
seems to work okay in WinXP but I get the above problem if I try to run 
it with Win7 or Win8.  I don't know if that offers any clue as to what's 
wrong?

John