Re: Camaelon crashing

[Nicolas Roard]

On 12/2/05, oliver frommel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello altogether,
>
> I am currently writing an article on Objective-C for the
> German Linux-Magazin. In this connection naturally I come
> to talk about GNUstep as well. As I am interested in
> theme support I tried the Camaelon implementation out
> of the Etoile-Snapshot available on the website.
>
> I get it to build (just the Camaelon bundle itself) and
> install. However when I try to run a GNUstep app with
> activated theme support (for instance GNUMail) the
> application crashes with not very helpful messages.
> With the GNUstep libs from gnustep-startup-0.13 I get
> "recursion encountered handling uncaught exception".
>
> Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?
> Is anyone still working on Camaelon?
> How about the state of general theme support through it?

Well, it should work, and I'm working on Camaelon.

Which version did you use ? the one from Etoile's cvs, or the one
from the svn ? We recently moved to svn, so the cvs version is
deprecated..

Secondly, you need a recent version of the GNUstep gui libraries
-- with the svn version of Camaelon, you possibly need the GNUstep
cvs version actually.

Lastly, did you install a theme ? And which one ? because at the moment
only Nesedah is working (Nesedah.theme.tgz on http://www.roard.com/gnustep/),
SimpleUI.theme.tgz is a bit outdated, while I use Nesedah to test things so
it's sure to be up to date.

Considering the general state of theming in GNUstep, well, it works
through Camaelon,
and I'm also working on integrating directly on gnustep the parts of
Camaelon that
modify AppKit widgets' drawing, so it will be even easier to create a
theme engine
(other than using Camaelon, say, if you want a theme engine for
GNUstep/Windows that
will use the Win32 theme api in order to have a proper integration..
or if you want a "programmed" theme)

--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
  -Arthur C. Clarke