Re: Gnome canvas problem on Ubuntu

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Dec 3, 2005, at 7:12 AM, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 21:49 -0500, muppet wrote:
>
> > > GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion
> > > `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed at ./beziertest.pl line 19.
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > ugh.  That works on linux, but i don't know how portable it is or how
> > reliable it is.  Anybody have a better idea?
>
> What about this?
>
> In gnomecanvasperl_canvas_path_def_get_type you call
>
>   g_type_from_name ("GnomeCanvasPathDef")
>
> to see if there's already a type registered with that name.  If so,  
> you
> just return it.  If not, you go ahead and register the custom type.

That was my first thought, but the case Grant posted is the  
archetypal counterexample.  Since Gnome2::Canvas registers its types  
in BOOT, the bindings will nearly always be the first to register the  
name.


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