check_version

Description:

public unowned string? check_version (uint required_major, uint required_minor, uint required_micro)

Checks that the GTK library in use is compatible with the given version.

Generally you would pass in the constants gtk_major_version, gtk_minor_version, gtk_micro_version as the three arguments to this function; that produces a check that the library in use is compatible with the version of GTK the application or module was compiled against.

Compatibility is defined by two things: first the version of the running library is newer than the version required_major .required_minor.required_micro. Second the running library must be binary compatible with the version required_major.required_minor.required_micro (same major version.)

This function is primarily for GTK modules; the module can call this function to check that it wasn’t loaded into an incompatible version of GTK. However, such a check isn’t completely reliable, since the module may be linked against an old version of GTK and calling the old version of check_version, but still get loaded into an application using a newer version of GTK.

Parameters:

required_major	the required major version
required_minor	the required minor version
required_micro	the required micro version

Returns:

null if the GTK library is compatible with the given version, or a string describing the version mismatch. The returned string is owned by GTK and should not be modified or freed.

Namespace: Gtk

Package: gtk4