Re: stupid segfaults -- argh!

["Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 6/5/06, Hargobind Khalsa <khalsah gmail com> wrote:
> I think the problem with the code is that you are calling
>
>
> Gtk::Main kit(argc, argv);
>
> Inside your initialize() function.
> When you then return to the main function the variable "kit" has gone out of
> scope and has therefore been destroyed, effectively uninitializing GTKmm...
> that's why
>
> Gtk::Main kit(argc, argv);
> is usually done in the main function.
>
> If you were to store "kit" in a variable that has global scope or the scope
> of main then you prevent this from happening.

Ah, that makes sense.

I wonder why the documentation says a Gtk::Main object can't be
created in the global scope.  Apparently, that's what I want to do, as
I can't put it inside main().

Joe