Re: "enumeration value âGDK_EVENT_LASTâ not handled in switch" message

[Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh yahoo com>]

--- On Sat, 9/25/10, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:

> From: Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>
> Subject: Re: "enumeration value âGDK_EVENT_LASTâ not handled in switch" message
> To: gtk-perl-list gnome org
> Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010, 12:50 PM
> On 22.09.2010 15:01, Sergei Steshenko
> wrote:
> > while building Gtk2-1.222 I've noticed the following:
> >
> > "
> > xs/GdkEvent.xs: In function
> âgtk2perl_gdk_event_set_stateâ:
> > xs/GdkEvent.xs:131: warning: enumeration value
> âGDK_EVENT_LASTâ not handled in switch
> > xs/GdkEvent.xs: In function
> âgtk2perl_gdk_event_set_timeâ:
> > xs/GdkEvent.xs:200: warning: enumeration value
> âGDK_EVENT_LASTâ not handled in switch
> > "
>
> It's harmless. GDK_EVENT_LAST does not correspond to
> a real event type (which we would need to handle in the
> bindings), but is just a helper value that marks the end of
> the C enumeration GdkEventType: <http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/gdk-Events.html#GdkEventType>.
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Yep - I found the info after sending the Email.

I think gtk+ folks are not meticulous enough. They should have put
GDK_EVENT_LAST into the 'switch' statement with some kind of

"internal ERROR - should never happen !!!\n"

message.

Thanks,
  Sergei.