[C++-sig] Re: Pyste-generated extentsion Aborts Python

[David Abrahams]

Jim Wilson <wilson at afn.org> writes:

> The "w = ..." line, creates a window in the upper left corner (0,0) of size
> 600x400 pixels.  The next draws it on the screen, the last one fires up the
> event loop.  The window is momentarily displayed before it immediately
> vanishes and "Abort" appears (followed by the bash prompt).

FWIW, FLTK has some design problems which make it nearly impossible to
wrap safely with any wrapping system.  So if you're seeing crashes,
I'm not surprised.  You can read about it in this thread:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/c++-sig/2002-December/003117.html

HTH,
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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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