Re: gtk_widget_realize

[Markus Lausser <sgop users sourceforge net>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:10:33AM -0800 Jin Chen wrote:

> Havoc Pennington ¼g¹D¡G
>
> > Jin Chen <jinc companionlink com> writes:
> > > I found gtk_widget_realize used almost everywhere.
> > > Can you tell me what's the purpose of thei function
> > > and what kind of widgets can be invoked with it?
> >
> > It's not generally useful, but you can call it on any widget.
> > It creates the X window resources associated with a widget.
>
> Thank you. But I still wonder which kind of widgets must have
> gtk_widget_realize called?
> Jin

For example you have to realize is manually if you want to draw into a
widget->window with the gdk_draw_* functions. If the widget was not realized
then widget->window == NULL