[arch-general] Tuxguitar: documentation and SWT/GTK

[Alan E. Davis]

I have stumbled.  Archlinux does almost everything to perfection, so I am
concerned I may have erred in the installation of tuxguitar.

I am uisng a 64 bit, a relatively mature installation with many packages
installed, including many from AUR.

Tux guitar works well, so far; however, when trying to access Documentation
through "Help>Documentation" Tuxguitar hangs.  I've spent some hours
researching this problem, and have gotten nowhere.  Every google search I
make leads one to mention of SWT, and apparently the most up to date 4.2
version, and some issue regarding gtk.

The following messages are received:

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type
'GtkWi
dget'

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot add class private field
to in
valid type '<invalid>'

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot add private field to
invalid
(non-instantiatable) type '<invalid>'

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static:
assert
ion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type
'GtkBu
ildable'

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **:
g_type_interface_add_prerequisite:
assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_INTERFACE (interface_type)' failed

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result
!= 0'
failed

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_add_interface_static:
assert
ion 'G_TYPE_IS_INSTANTIATABLE (instance_type)' failed

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_type_register_static:
assertion '
parent_type > 0' failed

(TuxGuitar:10351): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot add private field to
invalid
(non-instantiatable) type '<invalid>'


Also interesting, in the "About" screen, is the following information:

This product include third party libraries:
-> SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit): http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
-> iText (Free Java-PDF library): http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

The documentation is pretty good, in general, on the Archlinux Wiki.  I
could not find much useful information regarding this problem with
Tuxguitar with respect to Archlinux, even there.

Can someone shed some light, or, better still, suggest a way to solve this
problem.  I suppose I can try to get a PDF of the docs, and use that.

Alan Davis


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