Re: GdkWindow's position

[tomas tuxteam de]

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On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 08:58:33PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 03:25 -0300, MatÃÂas Alejandro Torres wrote:
[...]
> > Is there a way to get a widget's GdkWindow before it is drawn? 
>
> I don't believe so.  Because the window manager has not placed it yet.
> Thus the gtk app has no way of knowing where the window will actually be
> placed.

On X it's "definitely no". Because only the X server knows about the
geometry the window will take (it depends on many things only the X
server can know). And this happens when the X window is realized.

You might want to hook into the "realize" signal[1]. I guess this is the
earliest point in time you can possibly nnow about your window's
geometry.

HTH

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[1] <http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#GtkWidget-realize>

- -- tomÃs
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