Re: configure_event for eventbox

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:44 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
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> On 8/15/07, Darren Hart <darren dvhart com> wrote:
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>         On 8/15/07, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
>                  Look at Gimp's toolbox 
>                 widget which does something similar.
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>         Excellent idea!  I'll do that (wonder why that didn't occur to
>         me...)
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> Wow! It seems horribly complex, but maybe I'll have to go that route
> in the end - I think the container widget would consume more code than
> my application at the moment!  They created new wbox (wrapbox)
> container widget.  I'd much prefer to just be able to extend the table
> as I'm doing here.  But the problem I am running into is that if I try
> and resize() the table and reattach the children in size_allocate() as
> appropriate, I enter a circular size_allocate() call.  Is there a way
> I can tell it to not call size_allocate until I'm done populating the
> table? 

quite often there are things that you'd like to find a GTK API call for,
notably "too tell it something". in the end, you realize that you have
to fall back on your own flags for that.