Re: [gtk-list] Re: how do i force a window to be fully realized ?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> 
> the top level widget is already realized (always). i call
> gtk_widget_show_all (), which i believe is close to the same thing as
> gtk_widget_realize(). or is it not ? i have my doubts ...
>

show_all() implies a realize() for a toplevel. I'll let you read my book
or gtk+/docs/widget-system.txt for details.
 
> the wierd thing is that it works about 80% of the time ...
>

Some sort of race condition, or a funky bug in your program...

Havoc