From: Neil Conway <nconway@...>
Date: 2002-03-19T15:59:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Test::Unit GTk GUI

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 01:26, Bil Kleb wrote:
> Bil Kleb wrote:
> > 
> > I am running RH7.2 with Ruby 1.6.7 (2002-03-08) [i686-linux],
> > GTk 1.2.10, Ruby-GTk-0.25, and TestUnit-0.1.4 on the following:
> 
> I thought Gtk-0.25 was the latest according to the link given
> in Test::Unit's documentation, i.e.,
> 
>   http://www.ruby-lang.org/gtk/en/index.html

That's the webpage of the old maintainer -- I'm the current maintainer
of Ruby-Gtk, which you can find at http://ruby-gnome.sf.net. The
Test::Unit guys should consider updating their docs.

> but alas! there is already a 0.27 version available from,
> 
>   http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=Ruby%2FGTK
> 
> Someone needs to update the former web page on ruby-lang.org?

I was under the impression that it had been updated to redirect to the
new page, but apparently that is not the case.

> Still reading the manuals/docs and pining for the green bar,

Heh, I feel your pain :-) From a look at the code, the likely culprit is
that your local system fonts aren't properly setup (and/or the font that
Test::Unit is asking for is unreasonable). On my system, it segfaults
when passed the string that Test::Unit uses, but
"-adobe-avantgarde-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-2" works, for
example.

I've improved the code in CVS so that Gtk::Style#set_font fails more
gracefully if it's passed an invalid Gdk::Font (i.e. it no longer
segfaults, it just complains and then bails out).

Hope this helps! Thanks for the bug report.

Cheers,

Neil

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