Re: allocation returns -1, -1, 1, 1

[Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort brutele be>]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:21:13 -0500
"Jason Bodnar" <jason shakabuku org> wrote:

> I'm adding hboxes as needed in a signal handler to hold rows of photo
> thumbnails. The first hbox which is created before the main loop even
> starts returns proper numbers from $widget->allocation but hboxes that
> are added during the signal handler return -1, -1, 1, 1 for x, y,
> height and width. 
> 
> 
> I'm calling show_all on the hboxes parents to make sure everything
> gets shown so I guess I need to some how force space to be allocated
> for the hboxes since that doesn't seem to happen inside the signal
> handler?

$widget->realize() might help you.

Regards,
Jean

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