Re: [pygtk] Setting an RC style to a widget from libglade

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Steve McClure wrote:
>
> > My apologies, I misunderstood your original post and thought you
> > calling rc_parse before GladeXML.  I wasn't able to get it to work
> > either although the presence of the rc_reparse_all function implies
> > that it could work.
>
> I think it could too. I've tracked my problem down (well, Johann did, but
> anyway... :) to using:
>
> widget "*GtkStatusbar*" style "status_notify"
>
> instead of
>
> widget_class "*GtkStatusbar*" style "status_notify"
>
> Now this has stumped me - why should widget_class _work_ and widget alone
> not? Is there something I'm missing? Is widget the actual _name_ of the
> widget I set in the glade file?

Yes it is.  If you create a widget and don't set a name for it, then the
name used for matching "widget" styles is just the class name.  However
glade/libglade names every widget.

James.

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