RE: Unable to catch Gdk::PixbufError

[J B C Engelen ewi utwente nl]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 23:26 +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:59:05PM +0100, 
> J B C Engelen ewi utwente nl wrote:
> > > Ah ofcourse, sorry. Run Inkscape, and open the 
> "file"->"open..." dialog.
> > > The code tries to show a preview of the selected file in the file 
> > > dialog. Selecting an invalid file (e.g. a 0 byte .jpg file) will 
> > > throw the exception that is not caught.
> > 
> > 
> > The only problem is I couldn't reproduce it!!
> > I did touch /tmp/foo.jpg
> > 
> > But the exception was caught:
> > ** Message: Gdk::PixbufError in SVGPreview::showImage
> 
> JBC, are you using some strange distro? Gentoo maybe? Are you 
> mixing compiler versions?

This is what I also thought. I am using Ubuntu 7.10. I am somewhat
unfamiliar with Ubuntu Linux. Apparantly my g++ version is 4.1.3.

>From the header files I get that I have gtk version 2.12, but I only
have /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0 ! So something went wrong with installing
gtk?