[gst-devel] what do people think about GError?

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 02:31, Andy Wingo wrote:
> when should it be used in gst, etc...
> 
> i already have it in gstparse, as that's an obvious application.
> 
> check the glib2 reference if you're not familiar.

Yup, yup, like it a lot. Would be cool to have such a thing for when
adding elements to the pipeline, and setting a state on a pipeline, ie.
better user errors, for example:

- "Couldn't open file:///foo: Permission denied"
- "Couldn't find plugin bar"

GError should be used in all the cases where the user will affect the
user, and the application should use the GError to display a nice error
message, be it a dialog box, or on the CLI.
It shouldn't be used for "programming" errors, like "foo isn't supposed
to be NULL but it is", only for user visible errors.

Cheers

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/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net
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