Re: [BUG] one cannot add widgets to notebooks (regression against gtk2-perl)

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 01:30 PM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:

> Gtk2::Notebook->append_page does not accept any other widgets that the
> abstract base type Gtk2::Widget :
>
> $noteboot->append_page(
>                        create_scrolled_window(
>                                               gtkset_size_request(
>                                                                   
> gtkset_border_width($summary, 40),
>                                                                   50, 
> 50),
>                                               ),
>                         "");

the second argument, tab_label, must be a widget (usually a GtkLabel, 
but also a GtkHBox containing a label and a button), but you're passing 
a string, which is not a widget.

an unfortunate side effect of the way the typemaps and conversions from 
perl to C and back are handled is that you lose the variable name in 
error messages.