Hi John, Thanks. Going through the exercise of providing a small example, the cause of the problem became known: I had included the following call when setting up the context: g_option_context_add_group (context, gtk_get_option_group (TRUE)); as indicated in the documentation example. Looking into the details of the call gtk_get_option_group(TRUE), TRUE is an indication that the default display should be opened when parsing the command line. So under cron, this fails, naturally. I do not need the gtk command line options in my program (nor a display), so simply removing this line makes everything work as required and expected. thanks, richard p.s. i still think, however, the error structure should be set; an error occurred and the call to parse fails, why can't i know why? (thus avoiding bothering this list?) On 10/3/07, jcupitt@xxxxxxxxx <jcupitt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: ... I think the error must lie elsewhere, though I'm not sure exactly where. Can you make a tiny standalone main.c that shows your problem? John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
