On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:34:32PM +0100, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:34:32 +0100
> From: Stefan Sauer <enso...@hora-obscura.de>
> Subject: Re: is thaere a way to exit(1)?
> To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org
>
> On 01/15/2012 12:51 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:09:43PM +0100, David Ne??as wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:59:45AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>> I finally know =where= i want to exit my gtk program, but exit
> >>> just doesn't break me out of my while() loop. what's the magin?
> >> exit() *does* terminate the program no matter what loop or whatever it
> >> might be running.
> >>
> >> So, most likely, you think your code calls exit() at some point but that
> >> actually never happens.
> >>
> >> The program might get stuck in the finalisation phase if some exit
> >> handler (e.g. atexit()-registered) or finaliser gets stuck but I suppose
> >> if you were registering such things you (a) would have told us (b) did
> >> not wonder what happened.
> >>
> >> Yeti
> >>
> >>
> >> P.S.: Calling exit() while within the Gtk+ main loop is a bit harsh.
> >> Normally one calls gtk_main_quit() and the program continues execution
> >> after gtk_main() ??? which typically means it then reaches the end of
> >> main() and terminates.
> >>
> >
> > you were abs correct about exit(). i moved it around and
> > was able to verify that my code was doing what i had
> > thought. that puts me back to the problem of my gtk
> > application going dark/dim;
> This usually indicates that an application is busy. Run the app inside
> gdb, break into gdb when it is gray and check the backtrace.
>
> Stefan
well, it =is= busy. it's looping endlessly; but then i
limited it to 5 loops with a for-loop. same. (i thought my
programming skills were better that having to use the
debugger, but may have to.) before, i am going to scp
everything over to my eee-900a that runs debian. see if it
runs there. i hope i don't see smoke rising from the
netbook :-)
gary
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