On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Ian Chapman wrote:
Hi, this is most likely my failure to fully understand gtk. I have enclosed
the following code snippets that work and fail to work. I have a work round
so it is not too bad an issue for me.
gchar WorkingPath[500] = {"$HOME/Project/" }; //FAILS (this grows as
sub-projects are selected in project)
gchar WorkingPath[500] = {"~/Project/" }; //Also fails
So far as gtk (and C generally) are concerned, "$HOME" and "~" have
no special meaning, they're just arbitrary strings.
MyWorkRound()
strcpy (WorkingPath, getenv("HOME"));
strcat (WorkingPath, "/Project/");
Or
sprintf(WorkingPath, "%s/Project/", getenv("HOME"));
This isn't a work-around, it's what you have to do. More idiomatic
for gtk might be
gchar *WorkingPath;
WorkingPath = g_strdup_printf("%s/Project", g_get_home_dir());
/* use the path, then */
g_free(WorkingPath);
Or see g_build_path().
--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
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