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| | 24 | See also <a href="faq.htm">top-level FAQ page</a>. |
| | 25 | <hr> |
| | 26 | <h3>List of questions in this category</h3> |
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| | 28 | <ul> |
| | 29 | <li><a href="#wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK+?</a></li> |
| | 30 | <li><a href="#locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWindows?</a></li> |
| | 31 | <li><a href="#gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></li> |
| | 32 | <li><a href="#redhat">Warning about GTK libraries supplied with RedHat</a></li> |
| | 33 | <li><a href="#bincompat">What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?</a></li> |
| | 34 | <li><a href="#static">Can I statically link the GTK+ library?</a></li> |
| | 35 | <li><a href="#charinframe">Why does my simple program using <tt>EVT_CHAR</tt> not work?</a></li> |
| | 36 | <li><a href="#debugging">How do I trace the cause of an X11 error such as BadMatch?</a></li> |
| | 37 | </ul> |
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| | 41 | <h3><a name="wxgtk">What is wxWindows 2 for GTK?</a></h3> |
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| | 43 | wxWindows 2 for GTK is a port of wxWindows to the <a href="http://www.gimp.org/gtk" target=_top>GTK+ toolkit</a>, |
| | 44 | which is freely available for most flavours of Unix with X. wxWindows 2 for GTK is |
| | 45 | often abbreviated to wxGTK. wxGTK has a separate home page <a href="http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~wxxt" target=_top>here</a>. |
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| | 48 | <h3><a name="locale">Why doesn't reading floating point numbers work when using wxWindows?</a></h3> |
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| | 50 | If your program reads the floating point numbers in the format <tt>123.45</tt> |
| | 51 | from a file, it may suddently start returning just <tt>123</tt> instead of the |
| | 52 | correct value on some systems -- which is all the more mysterious as the same |
| | 53 | code in a standalone program works just fine. |
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| | 55 | <p> |
| | 56 | The explanation is that GTK+ changes the current locale on program startup. If |
| | 57 | the decimal point character in the current locale is not the period (for |
| | 58 | example, it is comma in the French locale), all the standard C functions won't |
| | 59 | recognize the numbers such as above as floating point ones any more. |
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| | 61 | <p> |
| | 62 | The solution is to either use your own function for reading the floating point |
| | 63 | numbers (probably the best one) or to call <tt>setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C")</tt> |
| | 64 | before reading from file and restore the old locale back afterwards if needed. |
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| | 66 | <h3><a name="gnome">Does wxGTK have GNOME support?</a></h3> |
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| | 68 | Currently wxGTK does not have any features that would involve dependence on any desktop |
| | 69 | environment's libraries, so it can work on GNOME, KDE and with other window managers |
| | 70 | without installation hassles. Some GNOME and KDE integration features are file based, and |
| | 71 | so may be added without dependence on libraries. Other features may be supported in the |
| | 72 | future, probably as a separate library. |
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| | 75 | <h3><a name="redhat">Warning about GTK+ libraries supplied with RedHat</a></h3> |
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| | 77 | It seems that some versions of RedHat include a badly patched version of GTK+ (not wxGTK) |
| | 78 | which causes some trouble with wxWindows' socket code. Common symptoms are that when |
| | 79 | a client tries to establish a connection to an existing server which refuses the request, |
| | 80 | the client will get notified twice, first getting a LOST event and then a CONNECT event. |
| | 81 | This problem can be solved by updating GTK with an official distribution of the library. |
| | 82 | <P> |
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| | 84 | <h3><a name="bincompat">What range of Intel Linux platforms will a given application binary be usable on?</h3> |
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| | 86 | Robert Roebling replies:<P> |
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| | 88 | "The important thing is the libc version that your app |
| | 89 | is linked against. The most recent version is 2.2.5 |
| | 90 | and programs linked against it will not run with version |
| | 91 | 2.1.X so that you will fare best if you compile your app |
| | 92 | on a 2.1.X system. It will then run on practically all |
| | 93 | Linux distros (if you link you app statically against |
| | 94 | the image libraries and std C++ lib)." |
| | 95 | <P> |
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| | 97 | <h3><a name="#static">Can I statically link the GTK+ library?</a></h3> |
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| | 99 | No, this is not possible. It leads to crashes in GTK+. |
| | 100 | <P> |
| | 101 | |
| | 102 | <h3><a name="#charinframe">Why does my simple program using |
| | 103 | <tt>EVT_CHAR</tt> not work?</a></h3> |
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| | 105 | In wxGTK, the frames never get focus and so can never receive <tt>CHAR</tt> |
| | 106 | nor <tt>KEY</tt> events so an <tt>EVT_CHAR</tt> handler for a frame will be |
| | 107 | never called. To receive these events, you should create a <tt>wxPanel</tt> |
| | 108 | inside the frame and register the key event handlers for the panel, not the |
| | 109 | frame. |
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| | 111 | <p> |
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| | 113 | <h3><a name="#debugging">How do I trace the cause of an X11 error such as BadMatch?</h3> |
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| | 115 | When a fatal X11 error occurs, the application quits with no stack trace. |
| | 116 | To find out where the problem is, put a breakpoint on g_log (<tt>b g_log</tt> |
| | 117 | in gdb). |
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