Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk--: Gtk_Dialog (refresh) troubles

[Robert_Gasch peoplesoft com]

Hi Matt,

thanks for the tip. Unfortunateley my problem is not the 'global'
situation,
but the one where each different dialog box has it's own object. As such
your solution with the global static pointer isn't quite what I need.

Anyhow, thanks for suggesting this ... BTW, what Gtk_Dialog bug
are you referring to ...

Thanks
--> Robert


                                                                  
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Subject:  [gtk-list] Re: Gtk--: Gtk_Dialog (refresh) troubles




On Tue, 4 Aug 1998 Robert_Gasch@peoplesoft.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use Gtk_Dialog in GTK-- but am running into some problems.
>
> My dialog windows are classes which inherit Gtk_Dialog and simply add
some
> buttons to Gtk_Dialog::action_area() and some input fields to
> Gtk_Dialog::vbox().
>
> Dialogs are created only once and then only shown and hidden on demand.
At
> first glance everything works just fine, but of course, further testing
> revealed the following problem: When my program is running and once I
open
> any dialog for the first time, everything is fine. However, once I have
> opened
> a dialog, any other dialog I try to open comes up blank (ie: not redrawn)
> accompanied by the following error message:
>
> > ** WARNING **: file gtkbutton.c: line 856 (gtk_button_add):
> > "GTK_IS_BUTTON (container)"

If I understand you correctly, I think you have the same problem I had.
When you say dialogs are only created once, do you mean per-dialog (a new
object for every type of dialog you wish to make) or globally (everyone
writes in the same dialog object)?

If you mean globally, then I have a slight hack which seems to work pretty
well (if not, you might be able to use it anyway).  The way I do it is
derive a class from Gtk_Dialog (called gcDialog) and have that contain a
static pointer to a gcDialog.  The static pointer is alloc'ed the first
time a dialog is created, and then for that and each subsequent call the
object is packed with whatever I need.  The difference is that when I'm
done with the dialog, I call dialog->stop(), which unpacks and deletes all
the child widgets.  Any other way I tried caused an empty black window to
be created every time after the first call (something to do with the C
object being deleted too early).  If you're interested, I could send you
my code privately (2 small files).  I don't want want to waste too much
bandwidth.

While we're on the subject, does anyone know if the Gtk_Dialog bug ever
fixed (since 1.0.4)?  Of course, it's more than likely to be a problem
with my code.  My hack is the only way I could keep the dialog from
showing up black after the first call.

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Matt Perry [guy@mikepery.linuxos.org]

Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?
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