Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-08 Thread John Emmas
On 7 Nov 2010, at 18:14, Jaroslav Šmíd wrote: > So try to set your desired font - edit or create > (GTKDIR)\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc and add line like > gtk-font-name = "Segoe UI" > Thanks for the tip. In fact it turned out to be due to the fact that an entry in my pango.modules file had spaces in its

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread Jaroslav Šmíd
So try to set your desired font - edit or create (GTKDIR)\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc and add line like gtk-font-name = "Segoe UI" On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:19 PM, John Emmas wrote: > > On 7 Nov 2010, at 11:39, John Emmas wrote: > >> >>  My guess at the moment is that there's no font being loaded >>  for th

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread John Emmas
On 7 Nov 2010, at 11:39, John Emmas wrote: > > My guess at the moment is that there's no font being loaded > for the label widget. Does that seem like a possible explanation? > Oops, how silly of me! Just noticed some text in the console window saying "Pango-WARNING **: failed to choose a

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread John Emmas
On 7 Nov 2010, at 07:31, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > if you are trying to use those with a current GLib or GTK+, > please check bugzilla for ones that actually work > I found this info on bugzilla:- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gtk%2B but it wasn't very obvious which releases a

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Tor Lillqvist wrote: What about joining forces and make one unique official repository for packages on Windows ? You mean, like there is one unique official Linux distribution? nice comment Vincent Torri ___ gtk-app-devel

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> What about joining forces and make one unique official repository for > packages on Windows ? You mean, like there is one unique official Linux distribution? --tml ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Tor Lillqvist wrote: no one ever wants to volunteer to help. Actually, that is not true. For instance, the ms-windows theme engine is now effectively maintained once again and compiles and maybe even works in gtk+ master. And for bulding the GTK+ stack for Windows (32- an

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread John Emmas
On 7 Nov 2010, at 00:15, Guy Rouillier wrote: > > Since the number of squares equals the number of characters in the label you > are trying to display, the problem appears to be one of font rendering. > Thanks Guy. I think I've been easing towards that conclusion myself but it's good that so

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-07 Thread Tor Lillqvist
>no one ever wants to volunteer to help. Actually, that is not true. For instance, the ms-windows theme engine is now effectively maintained once again and compiles and maybe even works in gtk+ master. And for bulding the GTK+ stack for Windows (32- and 64-bit), I very much plan to stop doing it m

Re: Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-06 Thread Guy Rouillier
On 11/6/2010 1:03 PM, John Emmas wrote: If I build the app and link it to the official gnome binaries, it works perfectly well. However, if I rebuild those binaries (using the various Visual Studio projects supplied with gtk / glib etc) the app doesn't work. The window and title display correc

Strange display problem with gtk-win32 and VC++

2010-11-06 Thread John Emmas
For the past few years I've been migrating my Windows apps to GTK+ which I now tend to use in preference to Microsoft's MFC. However, I've always been conscious of the fact that the official gnome binaries are (apparently) built using the 'C' runtime that equates to VC6. VC6 has been obsolete