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Hello on my call back i am trying to open up a terminal and calling a script with a variable. I can't get it to comple. I get error "/home/myusername/myproject/src/main.c:58:80: error: conflicting types for ‘filename’" - Both are gchars. it might be in the gchar *setup line. It sounds like to me it's not combining the gchars. The script works if i manually enter it into gnome-terminal. Any Help?

I am using GTK3, Ubuntu 12.04



Thank You

Hi.

What exactly should this line of code do:


You'll probably want to call some function to do the string processing (something like snprintf() from libc or g_strdup_printf() from glib).

Cheers,
Tadej

I can see why you're getting the conflict error though. Both aren't gchars. You have two lines of declarations. The first declares filename as gchar* and the second as gchar (the comma in your second one is used for delimiting a list of variables to be declared). In order to avoid this confusion it may help to separate your declarations/initialisations from your main code. Of course as Tadej has pointed out your second line should be expressed differently regardless; my vote would be g_strdup_printf. With a function call bracketing both the "gnome-terminal...%s" string and the filename variable, the compiler will no longer see it as a delimited list of items being declared.