Re: Dynamically adding a wiget to a container created by glade

[Yu Feng <rainwoodman gmail com>]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 03:52 +0530, Ravee Kondrakunta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created a dialog with glade. In this dialog, I have a HBox with two widgets, one is the label and the other widget will be determined at the runtime.
> 
> In the code I got the reference to the HBox using get_widget after loading the glade file and then I am adding my widget to the HBox using the reference from the XML. The code compiles properly, but the widget is never shown.
> 
> Here is sample code for that...
> 
> xmlRef = Gnome::Glade::create("myglade.glade");
> Gtk::HBox *pMyHBox;
> xmlRef->get_widget("myHBox", pMyHBox);
> 
> Lets us assume I need to add one more label the the "myHBox"
> 
> Gtk::Label lab("new");
> pMyHBox->add(lab); or
> pMyHBox->pack_start(lab); or
> pMyHBox->pack_end(lab); etc..
> 
> I tried all possible ways to show it.. Unfortunately, I couldn't see it on my dialog.
> 
> Please help me where I was wrong...
> 
you have to set the 'visible' property of your new widget to 'true'.

> -Ravee
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