From d326407f05cadec6422fe3ccbcfcaf41a869dfde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:54:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Decided to kill uiInitError and return the message as a const
 char * instead. Will need to implement on Windows.

---
 new/init_darwin.m |  9 ++-------
 new/init_unix.c   | 28 ++++++++++------------------
 new/test.c        |  6 +++---
 new/ui.h          |  6 ++----
 4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/new/init_darwin.m b/new/init_darwin.m
index 8d1a117..c7be20d 100644
--- a/new/init_darwin.m
+++ b/new/init_darwin.m
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 
 uiInitOptions options;
 
-uiInitError *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
+const char *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
 {
 	options = *o;
 	[uiApplication sharedApplication];
@@ -53,11 +53,6 @@ uiInitError *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-const char *uiInitErrorMessage(uiInitError *err)
-{
-	return "";
-}
-
-void uiInitErrorFree(uiInitError *err)
+void uiFreeInitError(const char *err)
 {
 }
diff --git a/new/init_unix.c b/new/init_unix.c
index 60abc91..b10c05b 100644
--- a/new/init_unix.c
+++ b/new/init_unix.c
@@ -1,31 +1,23 @@
 // 6 april 2015
 #include "uipriv_unix.h"
 
-struct uiInitError {
-	GError *err;
-};
-
 uiInitOptions options;
 
-uiInitError *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
+const char *uiInit(uiInitOptions *o)
 {
-	uiInitError *err;
+	GError *err = NULL;
+	const char *msg;
 
 	options = *o;
-	err = uiNew(uiInitError);
-	if (gtk_init_with_args(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, &(err->err)) == FALSE)
-		return err;
-	uiFree(err);
+	if (gtk_init_with_args(NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, &err) == FALSE) {
+		msg = g_strdup(err->message);
+		g_error_free(err);
+		return msg;
+	}
 	return NULL;
 }
 
-const char *uiInitErrorMessage(uiInitError *err)
+void uiFreeInitError(const char *err)
 {
-	return err->err->message;
-}
-
-void uiInitErrorFree(uiInitError *err)
-{
-	g_error_free(err->err);
-	uiFree(err);
+	g_free((gpointer) err);
 }
diff --git a/new/test.c b/new/test.c
index 991b62b..f61038e 100644
--- a/new/test.c
+++ b/new/test.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	uiInitOptions o;
 	int i;
-	uiInitError *err;
+	const char *err;
 	uiControl *getButton, *setButton;
 
 	memset(&o, 0, sizeof (uiInitOptions));
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	err = uiInit(&o);
 	if (err != NULL) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "error initializing ui: %s\n", uiInitErrorMessage(err));
-		uiInitErrorFree(err);
+		fprintf(stderr, "error initializing ui: %s\n", err);
+		uiFreeInitError(err);
 		return 1;
 	}
 
diff --git a/new/ui.h b/new/ui.h
index a692585..0625bd0 100644
--- a/new/ui.h
+++ b/new/ui.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 
-typedef struct uiInitError uiInitError;
 typedef struct uiInitOptions uiInitOptions;
 
 // TODO note that should be initialized to zero
@@ -17,9 +16,8 @@ struct uiInitOptions {
 	int debugLogAllocations;
 };
 
-uiInitError *uiInit(uiInitOptions *);
-const char *uiInitErrorMessage(uiInitError *);
-void uiInitErrorFree(uiInitError *);
+const char *uiInit(uiInitOptions *);
+void uiFreeInitError(const char *);
 
 void uiMain(void);
 void uiQuit(void);