RE: Unable to catch Gdk::PixbufError

[Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon quotidian org>]

On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 21:37 +0100, J B C Engelen ewi utwente nl wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Murray Cumming [mailto:murrayc murrayc com] 
> > Sent: zondag 18 november 2007 21:13
> > 
> > So you appear to be using Windows. I wonder if that is 
> > relevant. How did you install gtkmm? What version do you 
> > have, on what version of Windows?
> 
> I am running WindowsXP sp2. I have one installed version of Gtk that
> came with pidgin. But Inkscape uses its own gtk dlls copied into the
> inkscape dir. I have renamed the gtk of pidgin's install, so I am pretty
> certain it is using the gtk dlls from the Inkscape devel package
> (http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32libs/devlibs-2.12-071115.7z).
> 
> AFAIK we are using gtk 2.12 (I got this also from one of the dlls).
> 
> > It works for me:
> > murrayc murrayc-desktop:~$ g++ pixbuf_exception_test.cc `pkg-config
> > gtkmm-2.4 --libs --cflags`
> > murrayc murrayc-desktop:~$ ./a.out test.png
> > ** Message: caught Glib::FileError
> 
> Ok that is good news :-) !
> I'll ask the person who builds gtk for us, perhaps he can provide more
> information.

Perhaps the version of gtkmm distributed with inkscape is compiled with
exceptions disabled?  There is a configure switch for that in
glibmm/gtkmm

-- 
Jonner