Re: Help with first project.

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Havoc Pennington (hp@redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > We have some nice functions to let you use the standard GNOME
> > directories; look at them in gnome-libs/libgnome/gnome-util.h.
> > 
> 
> This is wrong if you're looking for stuff that comes with your app. For
> example if you app installs pixmaps to $(prefix)/share/pixmaps, it should
> look under the application's prefix, rather than using
> gnome_pixmap_file(). It might try gnome_pixmap_file() as a backup.
> 
> To get the prefix in your program the easiest thing is to add a -D option
> to CFLAGS; look at gnome-libs/libgnome/Makefile.am for examples.
> 
> Havoc

This was the tip I needed! Thanks for this, and yes, I'll fall back on
the gnome-util.h functions.

Tom.
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