[Pipet Devel] Gnome 1.2 and Overflow

[Jean-Marc Valin]

> This may be of interrest to some people. I've just tried gnome 1.2 (Helix). The
> good news is that it doesn't break source or binary compatibility with Overflow.
> The bad news is that there is one bug and one "very undesirable feature". The
> bug is in the text canvas item and make the boxes around nodes too large.

This bug is now fixed in the gnome CVS.

> 
> The "very undesirable feature" concerns those who run gnome with a locale that
> use the "," as a decimal mark. For me (I use the french locale), the floating
> point numbers are printed and parsed with a "," insteat of a ".", which breaks
> everything. This affects C++ streams. I don't know whether the printf and scanf
> are affected. The only way around is to unset the language environment
> variables.

I solved the problem by calling:
setlocale (LC_NUMERIC, "C");
after the gnome_init(...)

Case solved!

	Jean-Marc

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Jean-Marc Valin
Universite de Sherbrooke - Genie Electrique
valj01 at gel.usherb.ca