[Glade-users] Unable to see child widgets

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 02:27, Eric Stanley wrote:
> I have a project that appears to be stored correctly in the .glade file and 
> libglade can read it correctly.  When I bring it up in glade, however, I 
> cannot see some of the more nested widgets.  The following is the structure 
> of my widgets (copied from the .glade file, indentations indicating nesting):
>
> <widget class="GtkWindow" id="windowMain">
>     <widget class="GtkVBox" id="vbox1">
>       <widget class="GtkMenuBar" id="menubar1">
>           <snip menu because it's probably irrelavent to the question>
>       <widget class="GtkNotebook" id="notebook1">
>           <widget class="GtkHPaned" id="hpaned1">
>               <widget class="GtkVBox" id="vbox2">
>                   <widget class="GtkToolbar" id="toolbar2">
>                       <widget class="button" id="buttonContactFolderAdd">
>                       <widget class="button" id="buttonContactFolderDelete">
>                   <widget class="GtkScrolledWindow" id="scrolledwindow5">
>                       <widget class="GtkTreeView" id="treeviewContactFolders">
>           <widget class="GtkLabel" id="notebookContacts">
>           <widget class="GtkLabel" id="labelTBD">
>           <widget class="GtkLabel" id="TDB">
>
> The problem is that the most nested widget I can see is hpaned1.  Since it is 
> not apparent here, the second widget in my hpaned1 is currently
>       <child>
>               <placeholder/>
>       </child>
>
> Is this a bug or is there some way to drill down further that I have missed.

What do you see inside the paned widget hpaned1? Is it blank or is it a
Glade placeholder widget (grey mesh pattern)?

Maybe the pane is all the way over one side so you can't see the other
widget. Try changing the pane position.

I haven't heard of any problems with the paned widget before.

Damon