Re: Examples not working

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2014-07-07 at 16:44 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 19:59 +0530, Gurjot Singh wrote:
> > On 4 July 2014 19:42, Kjell Ahlstedt <kjell ahlstedt bredband net> wrote:
> > > The version of the overloaded add_action() method that's used in the example
> > > programs exists in glibmm 2.37.6, but not in 2.37.4. I suspect that
> > > developer.gnome.org/glibmm/2.37 shows one of the latest 2.37.x versions,
> > > either 2.37.7 or 2.37.93.
> > >
> > > Gio::ActionMap is a base class of Gio::SimpleActionGroup.
> > > Gio::ActionMap::add_action() is exactly what's used in the example program.
> > >
> > > There is an older version of the main_menu program at
> > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm-documentation/tree/examples/book/menus/main_menu?h=gtkmm-3-2
> > > It uses some deprecated functions that will disappear some time in the
> > > future.
> >
> > Ah.. okay.
> > By default in my Mint 16 I get 2.37.4 version.
> > So I was wondering whether the application that I am building be made
> > on this or on the latest gtkmm?
> > Considering that fact that the users may also need to have latest
> > version as well to make use of my app.
>
> gtkmm 2.37.* is an unstable development version. gtkmm 3.38.2 is the
> stable version of the 2.37/38 development cycle. No stable version of a
> Linux distro should have an unstable version of gtkmm.

I mean glibmm rather than gtkmm in all of the above, of course. Sorry.

>  You should
> complain about this to the packagers of your Linux distro.
>
> But, anyway, as Marcus Karlsson says, please look at an older version of
> the example to see how to use an older version of the API.

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Murray Cumming
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