Re: Adjustment problem

["Paul Davis" <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

Amadeus,

I forgot to mention that there's some pretty good information on using
jhbuild on these two pages:

http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/apg.html
http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html

Paul

On 10/31/06, Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu> wrote:
> Here is a working patch.  Although, really its more of a work around.
> Someone should ask on the gtk list whats going on with this class.
> Its kind of schizophrenic.  The GtkAdjustment structure contains six
> member variables that are also listed as properties. Murray might know
> better, but I've been under the impression that properties are stored
> and retrieved using functions that operate on the gobject.
>
> Ie, the value, lower, upper, et al values are stored as *both*
> properties and structure member variables.
>
> What appears to be happening, is that when gtkmm instantiates an
> Adjustment, the property values are set correctly, but not the
> structure member variables, but when other gtkmm objects access the
> adjustment properties, they're accessing the structure values..... (I
> think)
>
> Anyway, this patch seems to fix things.
>
> Amadeus, I don't think jhbuild does rpms. I'm not sure how that
> process works.  Although, I imagine that it wouldn't be too hard to
> apply these changes to an existing source tree and repackage because
> no files are created or destroyed.
>
> And it should be abi compatible too. I think...
>
> Paul
>
> PS, Murray, do you some nifty program to do your change log editing?
>
> On 10/31/06, Amadeus W.M. <amadeus84 verizon net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:52:09 -0600, Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> > > I think I've got a patch thats compiling right now, but I'll have to
> > > wait and see.
> >
> > Excellent!
> >
> > >
> > > I recommend building using jhbuild, it makes everything pretty simple,
> > > the first build takes awhile cause it builds all the dependancies it
> > > needs, but its fairly automatic.
> > >
> >
> > Can I make rpms after it compiles with jhbuild? I've never used it.
> > I'll probably try to get a .spec file from existing src.rpms and see if I
> > can do it that way.
> >
> >
> > > I'll let you know when this is done if it worked
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > PS I wasn't paying to much attention to gmail's outgoing message format, my bad.
> > >
> >
> > No problem.
> >
> >
> >
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