Re: Expose Event

[John Vetterli <jvetterli linux ca>]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:06:00 +0000
"[ A b h i s h e k ]" <septembereleven hotmail com> wrote:
> Im having problem regarding writing code in the expose event of my
> event box. Whenever this event occurs, i am writing code to draw a
> rectangle in the handler but nothing seems to happen whereas if i run
> the same code in any other function or event handler it works. Is
> there something i need to know about the expose event. If u could help
> out please reply to abhisheksamuel hotmail com 

The only explanation I can think of is that the widget hasn't been
set up to receive expose events.  Something like
gtk_widget_add_events(mywidget, GDK_EXPOSURE_MASK) would do this.

HTH
JV
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