Re: unable to print with gtkmm 2.12

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 13:18 -0600, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 2/28/08, Helfer Thomas <helferthomas free fr> wrote:
> > I am a new gtkmm user. I am writting a small plot widget as a way of
> >  learning gtkmm. This widget now works fairly well. By the way, I am
> >  gratefull to gtkmm developpers for their work.
> >
> >  Plotting is directly made on a cairo context which I now want to print.
> >  I have read the printing chapter in the 'programming with gtkmm' book
> >  and try to apply it. As you have understood, I didn't manage to get it
> >  work. However, I have got the same problems with the 'advanced printing'
> >  example of the book. The print operation goes into an infinite loop
> >  showing this message on the terminal :
> >
> >  (plot:15658): GLib-GObject-WARNING
> >  **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.14.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2180: invalid object
> >  type `

What distro is this?

> >  The fact that the example of the book does not work either suggest a bug
> >  in gtkmm. Is it the case ?
> 
> It is possible that there is a bug in gtkmm.  I think there have been
> other people who have mentioned difficulties with printing in the past
> and I have not gotten around to looking into them.  I'm not sure how
> well-tested the printing support is in gtkmm.  If you file a bug it
> will be much less likely to get forgotten.

It should work. I use it in Glom already.

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