[Gambas-user] error mesage

[Bruce Steers]

haha , yeah GTK4 will will do things entirely differently just to be
annoying :D

I'm re-assured to know almost everything i run in a terminal from zenity to
pluma all give out a bunch of gtk warnings depending on my widget theme. so
gambas is in no way alone,


On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 at 15:21, Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 22/12/2020 à 15:42, Dag Jarle Nerland Johansen - Gambas a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > every time I run a certain program in the IDE I get this message.
> > /
> > //(vl:26743): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 13:33:43.984: gtk_box_gadget_distribute:
> > assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkNotebook/
> >
> > What is wrong here.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dag
> >
> >
>
> This is GTK+ as usual.
>
> They implement a new widget drawing system during GTK+3.
>
> As soon as this system cannot resize a sub-element, it emits a warning.
> Then I don't know what it does exactly, this is not documented. I hope
> it does the right thing, i.e. hide this sub-element, but who knows?
>
> The problem is that these resizing problems entirely depend on the
> widget theme, so you cannot know by advance if you will get these
> warnings or not.
>
> I succeeded in avoiding a lot of these warning with a big bunch of
> tricks and workarounds. At the moment, with the Breeze GTK+ theme, I
> mostly have only warnings with scrollbars for reasons I don't
> understand. But I guess with other themes, on some controls, you will
> have other warnings...
>
> But don't worry, I guess all that will be worse with GTK+4.
>
> Is there some sort of contest for the worse GUI toolkit in the world?
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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