From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1038 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2003 22:05:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact guile-gtk-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: guile-gtk-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 882 invoked from network); 13 Jun 2003 22:05:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO snoopy.pacific.net.au) (61.8.0.36) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jun 2003 22:05:28 -0000 Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.2.228.40]) by snoopy.pacific.net.au (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.3) with ESMTP id h5DM5QYd023594 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:05:26 +1000 Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id h5DM5PQg015413 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:05:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (ppp109.dyn228.pacific.net.au [203.143.228.109]) by wisma.pacific.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5DM5OYZ024005 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:05:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Qwff-0000Z0-00; Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:05:19 +1000 To: guile-gtk@sources.redhat.com Subject: gdk-string-to-compound (was: texinfo documentation) References: <87llxd2c59.fsf@zip.com.au> <874r3lmifw.fsf@zip.com.au> <87of1tjjwy.fsf@zip.com.au> <87znldi1wl.fsf@zip.com.au> <87el2mmymo.fsf@zip.com.au> <87smr2lgge.fsf@zip.com.au> <877k89nx2w.fsf@zip.com.au> From: Kevin Ryde Mail-Copies-To: never Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 22:05:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87llw5ocps.fsf@zip.com.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2003-q2/txt/msg00135.txt.bz2 Marko Rauhamaa writes: > > Note that the C function returns 0 for success and any other value for > failure. I see the return is actually a count of failed characters in the conversion, or an X error code (negative). Not documented by gtk, but may as well be passed on upwards. On that basis I think gdk-string-to-compound should be an ordinary multiple-values function, returning 4 results.