gnupic: Re: [gnupic] gpsim, watching variables / ram
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] gpsim, watching variables / ram
From:
"Scott Dattalo" ####@####.####
Date:
19 Oct 2005 14:56:01 +0100
Message-Id: <64013.71.139.25.4.1129729889.squirrel@71.139.25.4>
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 22:58 +0100, Peter Chant wrote:
> When we had our last discussions about gtkextra I think you stated it was
> no longer used my 0.21.11. Is it possible that I have old gtkextra stuff
> hanging around causing me problems?
Hi Peter,
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking in context to what I stated in the
past. So let me re-state the issue:
gtkextra provides a set of widgets that extend gtk. gtkextra is a separate
project from gtk. gpsim uses gtkextra's GtkSheet widget to implement the
register window. Now, gpsim made the transition from gtk-1.2 to gtk-2.0
before gtkextra was fully ready. Borut and myself fixed a couple of
gtkextra-2.0 bugs so that the code would at least compile and could be
used. To add to the confusion, at the time we made these changes
gtkextra-2.0 was being called gtkextra-1.1; and that's what you'll see on
the gpsim webpage. Earlier this year the gtkextra maintainers fixed these
same bugs. Somewhere around May or June gtkextra made the transition to
"2.0". I hadn't noticed this announcement, so I continued with the
gtkextra-1.1 series.
Somewhere around June or July, people started complaining about gpsim
"hanging". After some detective work, I discovered that the issue arose
when gtkextra-2.0 or gtkextra-1.1 was used with gtk-2.6 and in particular
with the row and column labels with the GtkSheet widget. I filed a bug
report with gtkextra, but I got no feedback... So as a temporary measure,
I turned off the row and column labels in the GtkSheet widget.
Finally, a few weeks ago Adrian Portal asked me about a gpsim "stable"
release that used gtkextra-2.1 "stable". I wasn't aware that gtkextra had
a stable release! So I upgrade to the latest version of gtkextra and
discovered that the GtkSheet row and column label bug had been fixed.
Consequently, I took out the temporary work around in gpsim. This means if
you're using an old version of gtkextra and a new version of gtk, then
gpsim 's register window will probably cause gpsim to hang.
To summarize, if you've upgraded to gpsim-0.21.11 you'll need to upgrade
to gtkextra-2.1.
Scott
