Re: [gtk-list] Signal when a widget is shown on the screen.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Alex Buoy wrote:
> 
> I'd like to connect a callback to a widget when it is shown on the screen.
> "show" signal does not do what I want as a widget can be shown be not visible
> on the screen.
> Is there any signal for that? And for the contrary, when it is hidden ( I
> tried to use "hide" but it did not do what I wanted either.).
> 

You don't know the widget is actually on-screen until you get your first
expose_event signal. However the "map" signal means GTK has requested that
it be shown on screen.

Havoc