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

[Goran Thyni <goran kirra net>]

On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:08:50PM -0400, muppet wrote:
> 
> 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.

I think this is a perfect example where we should try to be "perlish".
The old gtk2-perl wrapped this and automagically created the Label widget
if you passed in a string.

brgrds,
göran