Re: [gtk-osx-devel] Problem with dialog box icons

[Jim Charlton <jim jimc dyndns org>]

On 14-01-30 11:55 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Jim Charlton <jim jimc dyndns org> wrote:
>
> > On 14-01-30 09:05 AM, Ronan Waide wrote:
> > > On 01/30/2014 04:42 PM, Jim Charlton wrote:
> > > > I have recently built gtkmm (jhbuild, meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap and then meta-gtk-osx-gtk3,  and finally, 
> > > > meta-gtk-osx-gtkmm3) on a MAC MAVERICKS machine.  All went well.  I then recompiled a substantial program.  
> > > > After some minor adjustments, the code executed as previously compiled on a MAC LION machine... but... icon 
> > > > images do not appear in the dialog boxes and when run from a console window I get the following error message.
> > > >
> > > > Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'dialog-warning-symbolic'. The 'hicolor' theme
> > > > was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
> > > > You can get a copy from:
> > > >     http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases
> > > >
> > > > hicolor is in the .../gtk/inst/share/icons directory... but it seems like it is ignored.
> > > >
> > > > If I install the hicolor theme to /usr/local/share, then this message goes away but the icons are still 
> > > > missing.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone have any hints as to how I can get the icons back?
> > > sounds like this bug:
> > > https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=7356
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Waider.
> > Thanks for the link.  I have read all of the comments there and perused the documentation cited.  It is an 
> > interesting academic discussion... but I do not see clearly how I can edit my code to adjust to the new 
> > reality of the deprecated GTK stock items.  SInce I am working with gtkmm code, it is one level of 
> > abstraction above the GTK+ code.  So what do I do with lines like:
> > Gtk::MessageDialog dialog("Dialog message", FALSE, Gtk::MESSAGE_WARNING, Gtk::BUTTONS_CLOSE);
> > to get a warning icon to appear in the dialog box?  Any further hints?
> I'm actually trying to figure that out now. In the case of the Gramps bug, most of the icons do appear. At 
> the moment I'm working the angle that there are some icons which are provided by some other package besides 
> hicolor-icon-theme; gnome-icon-theme seems a strong possiblity.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
I checked on installations of my program on various MAC OS versions.  
Code that was compiled last year on a MAC LION OS using gtk-osx that had 
the gtk stock items, displays the dialog-warning icon.  When I search 
for the icon image on the machine where the program was compiled, I find 
it in .../gtk/source/gtk+-3.0/gtk/stock-icons/48/dialog-warning.png and 
nowhere else.  If I move the compiled code to a MAC MOUNTAIN LION 
machine the icon also displays but that machine does not have a copy of 
the dialog-warning.png file anywhere that I can find.  Do icon images go 
into a database or something???  On a linux (Ubuntu OS) using the high 
contrast theme, the icon that displays is the one that is identical to 
that found at 
/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48/status/dialog-warning.png.  The 
compiled code on Ubuntu is that which was compiled today with updated 
Ubuntu packages (not sure if stock items are there or not).

What I find strange is that on a MAC machine (Mavericks) with the 
hicolor theme installed, my code gives no error message about missing 
dialog-warning image..  But the icon image is still a red X instead of 
the correct image.

Hope some of this is helpful...

jim...   Jim Charlton