[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Gtk2hs-users] ANN: Gtk2Hs 0.9.13 released

[Peter Gavin]

Peter Hercek wrote:
> Thanks for the package.
> I experienced some bugs with it on windows. When showing a dynamically
>   built context menu, I'm getting errors like these:
> 
> _cairo_win32_surface_show_glyphs(ExtTextOutW failed): The operation completed successfully.
> _flush_glyphs: The operation completed successfully.
> 
> ... and the text of some menu items is not shown (otherwise the menu
>   items do work - actions are called when they are clicked).
> 
> When I try to run the app under ghci I get error like this:
> 
> Loading package glib-0.9.13 ... <interactive>: Unknown PEi386 section name `.reloc' (while processing:
> C:/tools/Gtk2Hs/HSglib.o)
> ghc.exe: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
>    (GHC version 6.8.3 for i386-unknown-mingw32):
>          loadObj: failed
> Please report this as a GHC bug:  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
> 
> Using older Gtk (2.10.13) helps for the first one.
> Using my own compile of Gtk2Hs (I compiled older version 0.9.12.1
>   myself) helps for the second one.
> 
> Peter.

Hi Peter,

The first problem looks like a problem in cairo.  I'm pretty sure the 
functions named are cairo internal API, you may want to report a bug to 
their list.  I suppose it's possible those functions always print the 
error message (even on success), but behave correctly otherwise.

It looks like the second problem is a GHC bug, since there isn't 
anything special about our library (that I can think of) that might 
cause that to happen.

Pete

> 
> Peter Gavin wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Gtk2Hs version 0.9.13 is now available. [1]
>>
>> New features:
>>
>>      * bindings for Gnome VFS and GStreamer
>>      * a new Gtk+ tutorial has been adapted by Hans van Thiel
>>      * cairo image stride support
>>      * many new demos
>>      * compiles with GHC 6.8.3
>>      * lots of bug fixes
>>
>> This release has been tested on a variety of platforms with different 
>> versions of Gtk+ and GHC, so you should have no trouble compiling it if 
>> you're using an older version of Gtk+.
>>
>> Note that the binaries for Win32 for this release are only provided for 
>> GHC 6.8.3 and Gtk+ 2.12.  As with older releases, all the C libraries 
>> needed are included in the installer, so you don't need to download 
>> anything else to get up an running.  I've also created zip files 
>> containing only the C libraries that can be used for redistribution. 
>> The sources for these binaries are available at [2]
>>
>> Links:
>> [1] 
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=49207&package_id=42440
>> [2] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pete
>>
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