On 01-Mar-2002 Bo Thorsen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I now have blackbox running and looking beautiful in my hammer simulator,
> but I have a problem.
>
> I can set the style in .blackboxrc, but if I try it on runtime blackbox
> immediately dumps core.
>
> Not having gdb yet, I'm faced with an awful amount of ifdefs, so I was
> hoping that someone could point me to the place in the code where this
> might happen. Just general pointers would speed up the binary search a
> lot.
>
> I'm running blackbox 0.62.0.
>
Well, I would really like to make this easier on you, but I can't. Changing
the style touches nearly every cc file in the source. Let me give you the
quick overview:
Rootmenu.cc:
if chose SetStyle -> blackbox->saveStyleFilename(style)
fall through to Reconfigure -> blackbox->reconfigure()
blackbox.cc:
void reconfigure(void) -> re-read the Xrm database using style as the database
then delete all of the menu time stamps
then for each screen, screen->reconfigure()
Screen.cc:
void reconfigure(void) -> parse the style, update the gradients, call
reconfigure() on every item it manages --
workspace, menus, windows, toolbar, slit ....
Each of the subsequent reconfigure() calls adjusts decor, location, font, etc.
Until you can at least get a stack trace the best thing you could do is place a
'I am here' print in each reconfigure() method. At least that way you know who
died. Warning, reconfigure() is called fairly often on some items.
