Re: [PHP-GTK] Windows snapshots

[email protected] ("Madeleine D.") Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:10:41 -0800
Newsgroups php.gtk.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Elizabeth-

Tried out the 2.18 binaries, and that helped with nearly all of it.  
Still have issues with button accelerators, but that's much less of a 
problem than entry fields w/o content or vanishing labels.

I will tackle the button issue and see what I can find.

thanks for the help.
Madeleine D.



Elizabeth M Smith wrote:
> On 1/21/2010 6:16 PM, Madeleine D. wrote:
>>
>>
>> Downloaded the 5.2 zip and modified the php.ini for our requirements 
>> (mysql, etc).  Added libraries from the latest nts file.
>> Won't work at all on our Win2k servers.  Freeaddrinfo error, probably 
>> followed by Getaddrinfo errors, but we can't make it that far.  
>> That's a deal-breaker for us.
>> Went ahead and tried it out on my WinXP PC.  Got into our app, but 
>> found most of the  graphics don't really work.  Entry fields don't 
>> display cursor or entered data, multi-tab screen labels don't display 
>> at all, button accelerators are not valid.... etc.
>>
>> Our most recent Ubuntu compile works just fine with existing code.
>>
>> Obviously missed something important.  Not sure what.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Madeleine D.
>>
>
> Unfortunately this is apparently a gtk+ library error - 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601840
>
> Let me see what I can figure out- at the very least I can roll a patch 
> so they do it right.
>
> If you have time, if you could try dropping newer gtk libraries over 
> top for gtk 2.18?  Gtk has really picked up development speed lately 
> and hopefully some of those issues have been fixed.
>
> Thanks,
> Elizabeth
>