Re: [Vala] Program doesn't quit

[Steven Oliver <oliver steven gmail com>]

I figured out my own issue. Well, sort of anyway. In order to fix it I
removed the MainWindow class that overrode Gtk.Window. I moved the code
that would have been there back to my BalisticaApplication class. Now it
works.

https://github.com/steveno/balistica/commit/0a11c5e1610acce2a7294b2865ec115caac31261

Steven N. Oliver


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Andrew Benton <andrew benton675 gmail com>wrote:

> As  a quick fix, you could replace the gtk_main_quit function with another
> function that has the same signature, but contains the exit method, which
> will be sure to bump you out of the program.  Just be sure to declare the
> exit method in your file.
>
> extern void exit(int exit_code);
>
> void quit()
> {
>     exit(0);
>
> }
>
> On 12/3/2013 5:24 PM, Steven Oliver wrote:
>
> > Evan,
> > My apologies for apparently not clearly stating the issue. Here's try
> > number 2:
> > 1) Run the program.
> > 2) Close the GUI that pops up
> > 3) The GUI goes away as expected but the process is still running in my
> > terminal
> >
> > As for you suggestion, I already have that line in my code. Line 54 of
> > MainWindow.vala.
> >
> > Andrea,
> > Good guess! I hadn't actually tried that one. That didn't fix it though :(
> > I'm now left with the process still there but now with the following error
> > message:
> >
> > (balistica:2473): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_main_quit: assertion `main_loops !=
> > NULL' failed
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Steven N. Oliver
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Evan Nemerson <evan coeus-group com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >  On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 13:31 -0500, Steven Oliver wrote:
> > > > For the past year or so off and on I've been working on a pet project.
> > > > Between the time spent rewriting various parts of it over and over, and
> > > > trying to learn Vala/GTK, it's taking me a lot longer than I hoped it
> > > would.
> > >
> > > > Anyway, here is my project on Github:
> > > > https://github.com/steveno/balistica
> > > >
> > > > While I'm sure there are plenty of improvements that can be made
> > > > (patches
> > > > welcome!) I have one problem that's been driving me crazy for a while
> > > > now
> > > > and I'm desperate for help now to solve it. I assume the problem has to
> > > be
> > >
> > > > in src/BalisticaApplication.vala or src/MainWindow.vala.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone is willing to offer any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it!
> > > You didn't really describe the symptoms (in fact, you didn't even
> > > mention what the problem was in the body of your e-mail), but it's
> > > probably a safe guess that you're not calling Gtk.main_quit().
> > >
> > > https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/GTKSample has some examples.  For
> > > the simple cases, people generally just connect it to the main window's
> > > destroy signal:
> > >
> > >          window.destroy.connect (Gtk.main_quit);
> > >
> > > Once you invoke Gtk.main_quit(), your program will resume execution by
> > > returning from the Gtk.main() call.
> > >
> > >
> > > -Evan
> > >
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