Re: Bug#291480: libgtk2-gladexml-perl: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT' fails and program segfaults

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jan 22, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Jeroen Nijhof wrote:

> > On Jan 21, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> >
> > > If I try to load the following glade file, kww.glade, with the
> > > following perl script, kww.pl, I get a segfault:
> > >
> > > GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1222 (g_object_get):
> > > assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed at ./viewer.pl line 34.
> > > GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1222 (g_object_get):
> > > assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed at ./viewer.pl line 34.
> > > Segmentation fault
> >
> > I hate to say it, but it's not our bug; it's a programming error in 
> > the
> > perl script, and possibly lack of robustness in libgnomeui.

Actually, i do think that libgnomeui should be able to detect and warn 
about this.  The messages that precede the crash are rather obtuse.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164948


> So I suggest the problem might partly be in the documentation for 
> Gtk2::GladeXML -- it says
>
>    This extension module binds libglade to Perl so you can create and
>    manipulate user interfaces in Perl code in conjunction with Gtk2 and
>    even Gnome2
>
> -- but it does not mention that the SYNOPSIS example needs expanding 
> for a Gnome project.

How's this?  (attached)  Adds to the synopsis and the faq.

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