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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] FW: [Wireshark-commits] master 5330875: GTK+: Revert back to

From: Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 18:58:33 +0200
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Pascal Quantin
<pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2014-09-30 23:32 GMT+02:00 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> On 9/30/14 12:30 PM, Anders Broman wrote:
>> >
>> > Den 30 sep 2014 21:27 skrev "Gerald Combs" <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > <mailto:gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
>> >>
>> >> On 9/30/14 5:00 AM, Anders Broman wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>      Switching to the OBS GTK+ 3.14 package. It looks like a lot of
>> > our GTK+ code is
>> >> >>    deprecated, including GtkAction and GtkAttachOptions.
>> >> >    Would using 3.14 work if we remove on or more of these flags from
>> > config.nmake?
>> >> >       -DGDK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED \
>> >> >       -DGDK_PIXBUF_DISABLE_DEPRECATED \
>> >> >       -DGTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED \
>> >> >       -DGTK_DISABLE_SINGLE_INCLUDES \
>> >> >       -DGSEAL_ENABLE
>> >>
>> >> Possibly. If someone wants to experiment with this I can create GTK+
>> >> 3.14 bundles and check them in to the win32-libs and win64-libs trunks.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I think that could be useful.
>>
>> Done.
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Alexis spotted a new Win64 GTK2 crash (when scrolling fast in the packet
> window) seen exclusively on Win8.1 and not on Win7 (yes this also happens
> with the old 2.24.14 package).
> So I gave a try to the GTK 3.14 package. You will find attached the patch
> allowing to generate the win32|64 installers. The good news is that it does
> not crash anymore on Win8.1. And yes Balint, it does look better on Windows
> :)
> But there are still things that are not displayed properly (at least on
> Windows, my Ubuntu machine is still on 3.10.8). What I spotted on my quick
> test:
> - half of the icons are missing in the toolbar
> - no arrows in the scroll bars
> - no arrows / cross in the packet panes or in the menus (like TCP
> StreamGraph sub menu)
> - probably other things I did not discover yet
> I know basically nothing about GTK coding, so I'm not sure whether this is a
> lot of work to fix those items or not. If  good soul is willing to take the
> challenge, Win8.1 users would be happy (until Qt is finished of course !).
>
> Cheers,
> Pascal.

Thanks Pascal for the help,
The issue is on Win 8.* (i have no yet upgrade to 8.1..)
>
> PS: looks like the win32 build crashes in libpixman-1-0.dll. I did not
> investigate it yet as I'm not sure it's worth the trouble if we do not care
> moving to GTK3.
>
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