Crash on 16-bit colordepth (Windows)

[Johan Engelen]

When the Windows monitor color depth is set to 16-bit, Inkscape crashes with

(inkscape.exe:3712): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_win32_pixmap_new: depth = 16 not supported
(inkscape.exe:3712): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_new_with_values: assertion `drawable != NULL' failed
(inkscape.exe:3712): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_GC(gc)' failed
(inkscape.exe:3712): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_new_with_values: assertion `drawable != NULL' failed

etc.
etc.

(trunk and 0.48.3.1)

Perhaps a hint to a fix:
http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/21957

Although 16-bit colordepth is rare, it is annoying when it is set to 16bit when connected to a beamer...
Thanks a bunch.

[Johan Engelen (johanengelen)]

to clarify: Inkscape crashes on startup.

[Johan Engelen (johanengelen)]

Seems devlibs need to be updated to GTK >=2.24.9

[su_v (suv-lp)]

GnuCash probably refers to
<http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?h=gtk-2-24&id=ba8c4bb049b36b3707c2c8f22c5c66b497e2d2cf>

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed on Windows XP, Inkscape 0.48.3.1 and trunk.
Not reproduced with 0.48.2 and older versions.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Manually replacing the installed devlibs with the ones in the file in http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/gtk+/2.24/gtk+-bundle_2.24.10-20120208_win32.zip fixes the issue.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Devlibs update in progress.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

GTK+ updated to 2.24.10, devlibs revision 35.

[Johan Engelen (johanengelen)]

Thank you very much for this fix. Plenty of times that I couldn't figure out why Inkscape crashed and it turned out to be 16bit colors.
Good work :)