gtkmm

GTK : How to set the Height of a VBox?

Hi I'm making an app using GTKMM. The screenshot is below: Screenshot The Problem is, I'm not able to position the "My Label" to align at the top, just below the Search box. I'm packing Name,Search box, Search Button into a HBox, which is packed into a VBox, and then MyLabel is packed into the VBox. I think the problem is that the V...

Gtk::MessageDialog Run throws a segmentation fault

Hi I'm trying to show an error mesaage using a dialogbox. However when I run the code I get segmentation fault. Here's the function: void ShowErrorMessage(string message) { Gtk::MessageDialog dialog(message,true,Gtk::MESSAGE_ERROR,Gtk::BUTTONS_CLOSE,true); dialog.run(); } I try to open a file, if the file can not be open I wanna ...

GTK+ libgio-2.0.so.0 not installed on the target machine

Hi - I have an application which uses gtkmm. The client's machine does not have this library installed. When he runs my application on his Red Hat Linux he gets the error: libgio-2.0.so.0: cannot open share d object file: No such file or directory How can i install it on the client's machine? I know I can do yum install, but since its R...

How do I add ScrolledWindow support to a custom Widget in GtkMM?

I am writing a custom widget for Gtkmm that is supposed to display a huge dataset (imagine something like a 4096x256 character datasheet). Mostly for reasons of elegance, but also for a possible usage in a Glade/Gtk-Builder editor, I want this widget to support ScrolledWindow natively, that is, once it is set as the child of ScrolledWin...

GTKMM on RHEL3 ??

Hi - How can I install GTKMM on a Red Hat enterprise Linux 3? ...

OpenGL/Gtkmm game - keyboard moving

Hello, I am programming a game in "OpenGL" and using "Gtkmm" as a window manager. I want to use the keyboard to camera moving (thus, "UP-key" to move forward, "DOWN-key" to move backward, etc...) Some time ago, when I programmed in Java, I used this technique to "move": When the application received for example the "UP-key-press" signal...

Gtkmm : How to catch right click signal for a Gtk::Table ?

I'm making an app using GTKMM and I want to know how to catch the right click signal from a Gtk::Table ? And also how to catch if the Mouse is over a Gtk::Table ? ...

Gtkmm - "Gdk::Window::pointer_grab" troubles

Hello, I am programming an FPS (First Person Shooter) game using "Gtkmm" as a window manager and I would like to do the "mouse-look". Therefore, I have to "grab" the mouse pointer to redirect all the mouse motion events to my application window. There seems to be three overloaded functions to do that job and I have chosen the simplest o...

Redirecting stdout to a gtkmm TextView widget

Hi, I'm looking for a way to redirect stdout to a Gtk::TextView widget in gtkmm. Ideally, I want it to work both on Windows and UNIX-like OSes. So far, I've tried to redirect stdout to a file, then monitor changes to this file using Glib, like so (highly inspired from the gtkmm examples on gnome.org) : #include <stdio.h> #include <fcn...

Retrieving Gtk::Widget's relative position: get_allocation() doesn't work

I need to retrieve the position of a Gtk::Widget relative to its parent, a Gtk::Table. Most sources (e.g. http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk-faq/stable/x642.html) say that one needs to call Gtk::Widget::get_allocation(). However, the returned Gtk::Allocation object always contains x = -1, y = -1, width = 1, height = 1. I have to note th...

Shaped windows in gtkmm

How do I create shaped windows in Gtkmm. The shape must be defined using cairomm. ...

BadAlloc X Error

Hi Guys, Im having some problems with a GTK program im trying to build. When i compile it i keep getting this error: This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 195 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) Ive traced it down to the following comman...

Multiple Producers Single Consumer Queue

I am new to multithreading and have designed a program that receives data from two microcontroller measuring various temperatures (Ambient and Water) and draws the data to the screen. Right now the program is singly threaded and its performance SUCKS A BIG ONE. I get basic design approaches with multithreading but not well enough to ...

embed media player on Gtkmm window (Linux & C++)

Hello everyone, Please help in displaying/embedding the media player in Gtkmm window under linux. The language used is C++. Help would be appreciated Thanks a lot ...

Light Weight repalcement to GNOME for Ubuntu

I am working on rolling a bit of my own version of linux for my real time car application. I plan to base it off of minimal ubuntu (only needsd 32 MB of memory). I am not the most skilled person with linux so not really sure how to assess components when adding them to my system. What I am looking for is a lightweight windows manager ...

what is required to get intellisense for Gtkmm using editor Geany!

Hello everyone, i want to get the intellisense in GTkmm application, similarly as we get in dot net under windows. However this time i am using Linux, C++, Gtkmm and Geany as my editor. Please guide how to get the intellisense. Moreover, if any kind of editor supports the property of intellisense, please mention that also. Thanks and R...

How can I use gtkmm with MinGW (g++) without MSYS?

Hello stackoverflow members, How can I use gtkmm with MinGW (g++) without MSYS? Here is the story of my problem: I installed MinGW offline with all required packages (full install). I installed Apache Server and I copied all .tar.gz files and I created a website called sourceforge.org [localhost] and I installed automatically MinGW on Wi...

GTKMM/C++ Window Event on loosing/regaining focus?

How can i call a function whenever my gtkmm app looses or regains focus? Thanks. ...

Cairomm and Pixmap

When I have all my cairo drawing commnds finihed how can I added it to a pixmap so that it will be drawn later. I am using cairomm and gtkmm ...

Reporting library for Linux / C++ / Gtk?

We have a C++ Gtk application that currently has a "homebrew" reporting component. We're looking to step up to a more fully-featured reporting library, preferably with a WYSIWYG designer, print-preview / GUI viewer, and PDF export capabilities. Any recommendations? ...