From: dmg@... (David Martinez)
Date: 2002-04-21T01:11:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby crash when drawing an Icon in FXDCWindow

"Lyle Johnson" <lyle@knology.net> wrote in message news:<uc06aad427rpb1@corp.supernews.com>...
> > an strange behaviour of FXDCWindow::drawIcon is happenning. Ruby
> > crashes with a Segmentation fault when trying to draw an icon on a
> > FXCanvas using drawIcon, unless the icon was previously drawn as part
> > of the interface (ie toolbar).
> 
> Without any more information, I have the feeling that you have constructed a
> new FXIcon after the program's running but failed to call create() on that
> new icon. Find the line where you construct the icon, e.g.
> 
>     myIcon = FXGIFIcon.new(app, ...)
> 
> and add a line immediately after that:
> 
>     myIcon.create
> 
> to see if it fixes the problem. For more details, see this question in the
> FAQ:
> 

Yes, that works.

Thanks.
>     http://www.fox-toolkit.org/faq.html#ILLEGALICON
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Lyle