Re: deprecated: ruler

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 11:16 +0100, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> 2012-12-15 21:07, Marge Coahran skrev:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an application built with gtkmm 2.4, which uses the deprecated
> > Ruler class. I have two related questions, one of which may not be right
> > for this list, but any help here would be appreciated.
> >
> > First, is there a recommended way for me to upgrade to gtkmm 3.0 and
> > still continue to use the ruler in my application? For example, would it
> > work for me to download the most recent Ruler source from somewhere and
> > incorporate that into my application?
> >
> That's what the documentation suggests. You will need the source of both 
> the C code in gtk+ and the C++ code in gtkmm. You should be able to find 
> the source code you need in tarballs at
> 
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.24/
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkmm/2.24/

With some effort, I used GimpRuler, with small changes to the C code:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/glom/tree/glom/utility_widgets/gimpruler
It's generally better anyway.

It's LGPL, so you should not copy the code into your project unless your
project is LGPL or GPL.


Murray Cumming
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