Re: Error messages on windows

[Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com> wrote:
> On 22 January 2013 03:37, Angel Ezquerra <angel ezquerra gmail com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is my first email to this list. First of all I'd like to thank
>> you guys for making meld. It really is an excellent diff tool :-D
>
> Thanks!
>
>> I have recently started using the nice windows installer that Keegan
>> Witt has created for meld 1.6.1. So far things work pretty well.
>> However, when I run meld using python.exe bin/meld, so that I get the
>> console output, sometimes meld prints the following error message:
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Meld\meld\meldwindow.py:
>> 580: Warning:
>> g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>>   self.notebook.append_page( page.widget, nbl)
>>
>> Since I want to use meld to edit source code that often is not on
>> source control yet I'd like to understand if this problem may indicate
>> that something is wrong which may cause loss of data.
>
> No, this is fine. I spent some time narrowing this down to connecting
> to style signals, but I gave up before finding an actual fix. This
> shouldn't have any actual effect though.

OK, that is nice to know. It makes the software look at bit immature though...

>> Additionally, when I run meld I always this other error message:
>>
>>     Couldn't bind the translation domain. Some translations won't work.
>>
>> This is not an issue for me but perhaps you guys know what causes it
>> so that Keegan could fix it?
>
> I have a fix that may work in hand, so I'll add it to the list of
> things I have to check out on Windows.

Nice. Thanks for looking into this.

Cheers,

Angel