Hello, What is the purpose of your update? Do you want to refresh a widget, or anything else?
Vlad Volodin 2009/5/11 Adeel Malik <adeelmali...@yahoo.com>: > Hi, I was wondering how to update the gtk_main_thread function after a fixed > time interval (in milliseconds) as g_timer_add function provides a quick > solution to that. Could someone suggest how to go about it ?. > > Thanks, > Adeel > > --- On Sat, 5/9/09, Ardhan Madras <aj...@knac.com> wrote: > > From: Ardhan Madras <aj...@knac.com> > Subject: Re: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6 > To: adeelmali...@yahoo.com > Cc: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7:49 PM > > One of GTK+ dependency is GLib, each GTK+ version has it's GLib version > dependency too, if you try to compile a newer GTK+ version in a system that > has > not meet it's minimal requirement of GLib version then they will complain. > > You tried to update GLib on your distro using a package manager, you will got > nothing to do because your distro will not broke all dependency that it > already > made. Moving from 2.4.0 to 2.12.3 is not trivial, this will break many > applications that already installed, so they must have to update all > applications to meet the new dependency. Distributor tend to release a new > distro version rather than rebuild and update applications in the their > current > version. > > g_timer_add()? i don't know if this was a obsolete function, but i think > there are a lot way to write codes such this function does. I can't see a > reason why you should move to a version of GTK+ because of this function! > > --- ajhwb > > > --- adeelmali...@yahoo.com wrote: > > From: Adeel Malik <adeelmali...@yahoo.com> > To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > Subject: Problem with installing GTK+-2.0.0 on Fedora Core 6 > Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 21:13:24 -0700 (PDT) > > > Hi All, > I am doing application development on Fedora Core 6 Linux > machine which had GTK version 1.2.1 already installed. I needed to use > g_timer_add gnome function in my gtk application which doesn't seem to be > supported on this version. So i tried to install the newer version of > GTK+-2.0.0 > from the gtk.org web page. > Once I copied tar.gz file and tried to install the app. by running the > './configure' script, the insatallation process stopped at the following > error messages: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > checking for GLIB - version >= 2.0.0... > *** 'pkg-config --modversion glib-2.0' returned 2.12.3, but GLIB > (2.4.0) > *** was found! If pkg-config was correct, then it is best > *** to remove the old version of GLib. You may also be able to fix the error > *** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing > *** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is > *** required on your system. > *** If pkg-config was wrong, set the environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH > *** to point to the correct configuration files > no > configure: error: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I treid to update the glib library by running: > > 'yum update glib' or 'yum install glib' but it appeared that > kernel couldn't find the match and issued the following messages: > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Setting up Update Process > Setting up repositories > core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 > updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 > Reading repository metadata in from local files > Could not find update match for glib > No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I was wondering whether the problem is with the 'yum' package as it is > unable to find the requested Glib library. Since the whole point of installing > the new version of GTK was to be able to use the 'g_timer_add' > function, can some one suggest if it is possible to use this function with the > GTK 1.2.1 version. If not, can someone point out how can I fix the > installation > error if GTK+-2.0.0. > > Thanks, > Adeel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Listen to KNAC, Hit the Home page and Tune In Live! ---> http://www.knac.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
