Hippocanvas error :( [Solved]

Waqas Toor waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com
Sun May 25 15:23:05 EDT 2008


On 5/25/08, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
>  >> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Waqas Toor <waqasnasirtoor at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>> Tomeu,
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>> Talking with Joel, looks like hippo-canvas only builds the python
>  >>>> bindings if the prerequisites are already installed. If not, silently
>  >>>> omits them.
>  >>>>
>  >>>> I added python-cairo-dev to the ubuntu dependencies, but perhaps the
>  >>>> python bindings should be built incondicionaly?
>  >>>
>  >>> what I did was
>  >>> $ sudo apt-get duild-dep python-hippocanvas
>  >>> but still the error remains,
>  >>>
>  >>> Marco is right, hippo.so has conflict with libhippocanvas-0-1.so that
>  >>> is present in the install/lib/ directory, removing these libs makes
>  >>> hippo.so work but poses new errors
>  >>> that are
>  >>> journal fails to load and every other activity as well
>  >>> logmanager.py get permission denied errors to write to
>  >>> .sugar/default/logs directory :-/ and some error that says "Unable to
>  >>> create window at <hexa vaule some thing> "
>  >>>
>  >>> and again building libhippocanvas will remove these errors but "import
>  >>> hippo" will fail :(
>  >>>
>  >>> any body tried sugar-jhbuild in Ubuntu Hardy ???
>  >>
>  >> What I recommend you is:
>  >>
>  >> - cd sugar-jhbuild
>  >> - git-pull
>  >> - ./sugar-jhbuild depscheck and install any missing deps
>  >> - rm -rf source/hippo-canvas
>  >> - ./sugar-jhbuild buildone hippo-canvas
>  >
>  > after upgrading python-json package it worked, strange that it truned
>  > out that hippo.so (python-hippocanvas) is some what dependable on
>  > pyton-json package
>
>
> Huh. That makes no sense... I wonder what is going on.
>
>
>  > BUT now Icons are huge =D
>
>
> What resolution is your screen?

its 800x600

I have reported a bug, zoom factor has to be 0.72 for these resolution
as I am getting 95.0 dpi every time when I shit between resolutions

_get_screen_dpi() in style.py

>
>
>  > ==========================================================================
>  > ** (sugar-shell:19090): CRITICAL **: hippo_canvas_context_get_style:
>  > assertion `HIPPO_IS_CANVAS_CONTEXT(context)' failed
>
>
> Yeah these are "fine": Need to look into hippo and fix them at some point.
>
>
>  Marco
>


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Waqas Toor
member of OLPC Pakistan Team
member of Ubuntu Pakistan Team



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