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ctran · Familiar Face Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

Hi,

My GTK application is involved with creating a table of x rows and y columns. This table added to the toplevel window as

gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), table);
gtk_widget_show_all (window);

My "update" function retrieves data and controls display from above table. At some later time during the update, I want to have a total different display which I need to destroy current table and create a new table of different size of rows and columns.

gtk_widget_destroy (GTK_WIDGET (table));
table = gtk_table_new (newrow, newcol, FALSE);

I got a segmentation fault at the "gtk_widget_destroy" call. How do I resolve this situation ? Please help.

ctran

openldev · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:44 am Post subject:

Could you post a little bit more code? We can't see what's going on in the update function ...

ctran · Familiar Face Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

Right now I used time to change display page but later will link to shared memory where I rely on some variable change to change this display page.

The segmentation fault occurred when changing to special page.

gint
update(gpointer data)
{
...
gettimeofday(&t_now, NULL);
deltat = (t_now.tv_sec - t_prev.tv_sec)*1000 +
(t_now.tv_usec - t_prev.tv_usec + 500)/1000;

if (deltat > 15000 && !set_special_page) {
create_special_page();
set_special_page = 1;
special_page = 1;
}

if (deltat > 30000 && !set_regular_page) {
create_regular_page();
set_regular_page = 1;
special_page = 0;
}
...
}

void
create_regular_page()
{
if(table) {
gtk_widget_destroy(GTK_WIDGET(window), table);
table = gtk_table_new(16, 3, FALSE);
....
}
}

void
create_special_page()
{
if(table) {
gtk_widget_destroy(GTK_WIDGET(window), table);
table = gtk_table_new(33, 8, FALSE);
....
}
}

int
main (int argc,
char *argv[])
{
...

create_regular_page();

gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), table);
gtk_widget_show_all (window);

gettimeofday(&t_prev, NULL);
timer = g_timeout_add(1000, update, hdr_ebox);

gtk_main ();
return 0;
}

openldev · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject:

First, gtk_widget_destroy() takes a single parameter. You are destroying your window and then recreating the table. Second, how are you passing the table to the function? You might want to read this post: http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=2933

ctran · Familiar Face Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

Sorry, I typed it wrong when I posted because I had this in my code

gtk_widget_destroy (GTK_WIDGET (top_table));

Just simply rename as table instead of top_table.

Everything else is the same.

My window, table variables are declared as global, above all functions and main.

openldev · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject:

When in the code is this table every created initially? The first time you call gtk_widget_destroy(), it is on an invalid memory location.

ctran · Familiar Face Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

The call to create_regular_page in main created the table the first time. Since this table variable is defined globally, it should be defined in create_special_page. I put down some printf statements and the regular page worked fine and after 15 secs I got seg fault when calling special page. It failed at gtk_widget_destroy.

You think I should define variables locally and pass them to functions ?

ctran · Familiar Face Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 7

One thing I have for the regular page that I connect a signal to an expose event to do some drawing (line, arrow, etc.) while updating. So by destroying the table like this it caused some problem. I will look again in my codes.

I wrote a much simpler example with 5x1 table with label widgets created first time and later destroy it and recreated with 2x1 table and it worked fine.

If I need to handle anything special for event prior to destroying the table, please let me know. Thanks for your help.