Re: stupid segfaults -- argh!

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

On 6/6/06, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 17:40 -0700, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > 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().
>
> GTK and gtkmm require library initialization before any objects related
> to them can be created. by attempting to put Gtk::Main in global scope
> you are effectively asking for this order to be reversed.

So, in the program that I had in the original email, why did it work
if I had the Gtk::Main call outside of any functions?

Joe