Re: [Caml-list] lablgtk with OCamlMakefile

[Markus Mottl <markus.mottl@gmail.com>]

I don't use GTK so I'm not sure what the recommended way of
initializing it is these days.  A long time ago it did require linking
with an extra initialization module for applications.  Using the
init-function above seems to work, too, and may be the best approach.

Regards,
Markus

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Oliver Bandel
<oliver@first.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hello Adrien,
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> thank you for adding this correction.
>
> Using Markus' hint did work.
>
> But I now changed my setup  in the following way:
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> I again use  "lablgtk2" (instead of "lablgtk2.auto-init")
> in the "PACKS"-section of my Makefile.
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> And I added the line
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>   let locale = GtkMain.Main.init () in
>
> as first line in my GUI-code.
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> Doing it this way, it also works; I get a GUI instead of a crash.
>
> I hope this is the correct and recommended way now.
>
> Remark on the README-file:
>
> The line with "GtkMain.Main.init ()" I found in the
> README of lablgtk, which you seemed to refer to.
>
> Normally this README is not seen, because when installing
> the lablgtk-package, it will just be the working code become installed,
> and the README does not show up.
>
> Possibly it makes sense to have doc-packages, which install
> the documentation also.
> (It's on Arch-linux, and no docs are installed by default.)
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
>        Oliver
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> Zitat von Adrien Nader <adrien@notk.org> (Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:10:34 +0200)
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014, Markus Mottl wrote:
>>>
>>> You may want to try the following:
>>>
>>>   PACKS = lablgtk2.auto-init
>>
>>
>> Please, do not use the auto-init subpackage. It only exists for the
>> toplevel.
>>
>> Godi had it in its default META and it prevented building the "conf"
>> packages without X available because running anything always tried to
>> initialize GTK+.
>>
>> The README explains what to call to do the GTK+ initialization at the
>> right moment.
>>
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>> Adrien Nader
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