[cairo] Trouble with cairomm Context::show_text

[Johannes Bauer]

Hello list,

I'm having trouble with cariomm and the show_text function. I'm new to 
the API and am probably doing something incredibly wrong, if anyone 
could give me a hint... Here it goes:

std::string text = "mookoo";
std::string fontname = "Sans";
Cairo::TextExtents Extents;
cr->set_font_size(30);
cr->select_font_face(fontname, Cairo::FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, 
Cairo::FONT_WEIGHT_NORMAL);
cr->get_text_extents(text, Extents);
cr->move_to(X, Y);
cr->show_text(text);

At the show_text call, my application terminates:

glibmm-ERROR **:
unhandled exception (type std::exception) in signal handler:
what: St9bad_alloc

with a (probably not very meaningful, I might be wrong) stacktrace:

#0  0x00002b3d9b95a3c5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00002b3d9b95b73e in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x00002b3d9a592b55 in g_logv () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#3  0x00002b3d9a592bd8 in g_log () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#4  0x00002b3d98d6a53b in Glib::exception_handlers_invoke () from 
/usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#5  0x00002b3d98d693e7 in Glib::DispatchNotifier::pipe_io_handler () 
from /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#6  0x00002b3d98d69667 in 
sigc::internal::slot_call1<sigc::bound_mem_functor1<bool, 
Glib::DispatchNotifier, Glib::IOCondition>, bool, 
Glib::IOCondition>::call_it ()
    from /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#7  0x00002b3d98d6baf2 in Glib::IOSource::dispatch () from 
/usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#8  0x00002b3d98d6b0cf in Glib::Source::dispatch_vfunc () from 
/usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1
#9  0x00002b3d9a58aa61 in g_main_context_dispatch () from 
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#10 0x00002b3d9a58d834 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#11 0x00002b3d9a58db24 in g_main_loop_run () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#12 0x00002b3d98497bef in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
#13 0x00002b3d97dc0439 in Gtk::Main::run () from /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4.so.1
#14 0x0000000000408988 in BaseGUI::Startup (this=<value optimized out>, 
WindowName=@0x7fff13183e30) at BaseGUI.cpp:25
#15 0x0000000000406712 in Actual_main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff13183f88) at 
gnuDMM.cpp:50
#16 0x0000000000407596 in Protected_main (argc=16428, argv=0x402c) at 
gnuDMM.cpp:208
#17 0x00002b3d9b947b74 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
#18 0x0000000000405d49 in _start ()

I haven't found out yet how to avoid that Gtk catches the exception, so 
I can debug it myself. Does anyone know help anyways?

Thanks in advance,
Johannes