Re: Waiting and Waiting

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:35 -0600, Paul Davis wrote:
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> >Hi!
> >Before I go any further you should know that I am developing under
> MSW-XP and >G++ 3.4.2
> >Now, to the problem. I am using 'this->set_icon_from_file(
> "icons/pinguin.jpg" );' >to add an icon to my app; the program
> compiles without any errors but, for some >reason, the application
> crashes at start up. What am I doing wrong and how can I >solve this
> issue.
>
> Generally including error messages and/or sample code with your
> questions help in determing the root cause of the problem.  But from
> what you've mentioned, my best guess is that the Gtk::TreeView widget
> doesn't support the north bridge chipset on this particular mother
> board. Bummer.

Paul, this is an attempt at humour, I think, but it just ends up being
confusing and misleading.

> But really, the obvious problem is that the path 'icons/pinguin.jpg'
> at compile time doesn't exist at runtime. That or you have a
> completely unrelated problem. Its hard to say.

In general, a crash should be investigated with a debugger, such as gdb.
valgrind is also very useful.

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Murray Cumming
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