Re: toolbuttons and icons

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:47 -0500, Philippe Leroux wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 18:03 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >Please use Reply To All with mailing lists.
> >
> yes, that's usually what i do, my error (i pushed the wrong button, i
> need more cafe), sorry
> 
> I found  ..my bug....
> 
> Gtk::Image(filename) takes an std::string instead of char* as the
> previous function i used did

That should make no differnce. The const char* should be converted
implicitly to a std::string.

> so i converted some variables from char* to std::strings
> 
> and some variables where initialized to NULL (no icons),

That's the problem then. Glad you fixed it.

>  which leads to
> a std::logic error
> 
> i corrected to initialize the variables to an empty string, and
> everything is fine.
> 
> Thank you for your valuable help
> 
> P.L.
> 
> 
> 
> >On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 11:49 -0500, Philippe Leroux wrote:
> >> >
> >> >I guess you mean glademm. glademm has its own mailing list.
> >> >
> >> 
> >> I'm not actually using glademm, i just had a look at the code it made
> >> yet glademm inserts the pixbuf in the code converting the svg file to
> >> xpm or something
> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::PixbufLoader>_toolbutton_img=Gdk::PixbufLoader::create(std::string("../icons/sphere.svg"),false);
> >> >> Gtk::Image *toolbutton_img = Gtk::manage(new class
> >> >> Gtk::Image(_toolbutton_img->get_pixbuf()));
> >> >>    _toolbutton_img=Glib::RefPtr<Gdk::PixbufLoader>();
> >> >> Gtk::ToolButton* toolbuttontmp = Gtk::manage(new class
> >> >> 		Gtk::ToolButton(*toolbutton_img,iM->Name)
> >> >
> >> >Surely you can break that down to discover where the problem is.
> >> >
> >> 
> >> The problem here comes from loading the image
> >> if i do 
> >> 	new Gtk::Image("image_file")
> >> the program terminates with std::logic_error
> >> 
> >> is that a bug?
> >
> >Possibly.
> >
> >>  should i fill in a bug report?
> >
> >Yes, with a simple-as-possible test case.
> >
> >> or is it just me not using the api right? 
> >
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> >I recommend the UIManager in 2.4 anyway:
> >> >http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/ch10.html
> >> >		
> >> 
> >> 
> >> UI manager doesn't provide what i need, thought it looks nice
> >> i'm doing some kind of dynamic UI creation where plug-ins can add
> >> buttons to toolbars
> >> 
> >> the thing works, i just can't get an image to load :(
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Thank you for your fast answer Murray
> >> I'll now try to figure out what is wrong with loading the image
> >> 
> >> P. L.
> >> 
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