Re: [gtk-list] creating pixmap from xpm with null window..

[Brandon Long <blong fiction net>]

On 10/01/98 Adam Moore uttered the following other thing:
> 
> I'm getting a warning when executing (not a compile time warning) an app
> that is virtually cut&pasted out of gtk example code. I'm using a pixmap
> defined in my code, and pixmap_create_from_xpm_d is giving:
> 
> ** WARNING **: Creating pixmap from xpm with NULL window and colormap
> 
> ..which I'd really like to get rid of if anyone knows how ;)

You are creating the pixmap before the widget is realized, so the
widget->window is NULL.

If this is a drawing_area widget, or other types, trying loading the
pixmap during the configure event.  See the Scribble app in the GTK+
Tutorial for more info
(http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/gtk_tut-24.html#ss24.3)

Brandon
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