GnomeCanvas, though it should still work for existing applications, is
considered obsolete today. There are currently several contenders about that
desire to become the official GtkCanvas. There is a great overview about
them at:

http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley/CanvasOverview

Personally I switched to GooCanvas after having used GnomeCanvas during
several years, and I found it great for drawing graphics primitives with
interaction.

Regards,
Dov

2009/1/3 Jasper Taylor <[email protected]>

> Hello Gtk+ world! I am wanting to learn gtk+ programming, and am having
> trouble getting the examples from the GGAD book (
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD) working.
> I was able to run the 'Hello World' example in Appendix E more or less as
> described. Although a couple of warnings appeared:
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libgail.so": libgail.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libatk-bridge.so": libatk-bridge.so:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> (Obviously it's nothing so simple as them actually not being there).
>
> But I found that with the GnomeCanvas example (listing on
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/z177.html) If I just copied and pasted
> the code, and built it with a similar command line, i.e.,
>
> gcc canvoid.c -o base `pkg-config --cflags --libs gnomeui`
>
> ...it builds OK, produces the same two warnings, but hangs, or else goes:
> *** glibc detected *** ./base: malloc(): memory corruption (fast):
> 0x08c81c30 ***
> Segmentation fault
> ...if you jiggle the ellipse items around a lot.
>
> However, if you replace:
> #include <gnome.h>
> with
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <libgnomecanvas/libgnomecanvas.h>
> and replace
> gnome_init("canvas-example", "0.0", argc, argv);
> with
> gtk_init(&argc, &argv); ...you get rid of the warnings, and it no longer
> hangs.
>
> However, the next thing I want to do is put the GnomeCanvas into the
> application framework from Hello World, and this seems to require that I use
> gnome.h and the gnomeui library. Thus, the app crashes.
>
> Now I am just starting out with this, but I have trawled this mailing list
> and the Web in general for any references to similar problems, and can find
> none -- or at least none with answers. My personal suspicion is that I am
> falling victim to a vast and unacknowledged incompatibility problem owing to
> my system (Ubuntu 8.10) having components of both gtk+ 1.2 and 2.0 installed
> in various places. This does not help me find a solution though!
>
> Can any initiates help me find my way through this minefield?
> Cheers
>   --Jasper
>
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