Re: custom widget

["Marco Scholten" <mscholtn xs4all nl>]

> Hi,
>
> After seeing that the custom widget sample in the source tarball just
> doesn't work, I checked out the gtkmm CVS, and took a look at the same
> sample there. as you can see from the attached image, now the sample app
> actually shows something - but it draws itself unto its parent window,
> not unto 'itself'. this is probably due to the following code change in
> on_realize():
>
>
> //    m_refGdkWindow = Gdk::Window::create(get_window() /* parent */,
> //                       &attributes,
> //                       GDK_WA_X | GDK_WA_Y);
>
>     m_refGdkWindow = get_window();
>
>
> where, aperantly get_window() returns the parent window.
>
> where to go from here? how could one successfully create a window for
> the custom widget, and draw into it?
>
>
> Akos
I submitted a patch for this yesterday, it now draws on it's own 
Gdk::Window. (see Bug 164007)

Marco