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tak · Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 3

Hi,
I have difficulties understanding the gnome library instructions on how to use GError in a GTK+ programm written in C. I want to tell the user when the connecting function fails due to the instrument not being detected. I believe this is the sort of error that GError is meant for? What I want to use GError for, is to associate an error message with an error code (DOMAIN_MODULE_ERROR_CODE) that I can then propagate upwards through my program and handle on the top level (with a dialog window if suitable).

I think I understand the propagation of errors via the GError **pointer, but I have difficulties understanding how to set up an error domain and error codes for my own functions. According to library.gnome, I need the following three pieces of code (this is my variation of them), however I am not sure how to link them to gether, i.e. where to put them. At the moment I have them all in a header file and I get a multiple definition error on "pico_comms_error_quark ()".

I basically don't understand how the pieces work together even though I know what they do individually.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, there seems to be very little on this out there on the net.

Code: (C)
1 2 3 4	/* Error domain for picoammeter specific errors */ #define PICO_COMMS_ERROR pico_comms_error_quark ()

Code: (C)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	/** * Error quark for picoammeter specific errors */ GQuark pico_comms_error_quark (void) { return g_quark_from_static_string ("pico-comms-error-quark"); }

Code: (C)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10	/** * Error enum for error codes. / typedef enum { PICO_COMMS_ERROR_NODEVICE, /< No device found / PICO_COMMS_ERROR_FAILED /< No error code for this error */ } PicoCommsError;

tak · Joined: 15 May 2008 Posts: 3

Hi there,

I solved the problem. It wasn't the way I defined my GErrors, it was just the problem of the double definition i.e. I messed up my header files.

The code below seems to work for me. I put it in a separate header file and include it in the file.c where I am working with these error domains.

cheers.

Code: (C)

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#ifndef PICO_COMMS_ERROR
/* Error domain for picoammeter specific errors */
#define PICO_COMMS_ERROR (pico_comms_error_quark ())

/**
* Error domain for picoammeter specific errors
*/
GQuark
pico_comms_error_quark (void)
{
static GQuark q = 0;
if (q == 0) {
q = g_quark_from_static_string ("pico-comms-error-quark");
}
return q;
}

typedef enum
{
PICO_COMMS_ERROR_NODEVICE, /*< No device found */
PICO_COMMS_ERROR_FAILED
} PicoCommsError;
#endif /* PICO_COMMS_ERROR */