Re: Return values from gtk2 widget (void) methods

[Guillaume Cottenceau <gc mandrakesoft com>]

Dermot Musgrove <dermot glade perl connectfree co uk> writes:

> I guess that if it is impossible to tell whether a function has failed
> or not, there is no easy way to be selective - I don't understand how
> gtk2 C programs (especially custom widgets) work if there is no error
> available to check but hey there is a lot I don't understand :)

I think that they can check for the constructors return value (is
it a NULL pointer?) and then, each function is supposed to never
fail.
 
> Perl's eval() seems able to get and return errors (in $@) so I assumed
> that it would be possible in Gtk2-Perl too but if this is not the
> case then I suppose that we'll have to go with returning whatever
> the gtk2 function returns.

I don't see what's your idea with eval.

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