configure_event for eventbox

["Darren Hart" <darren dvhart com>]

I'm trying to create a widget that lists checkbuttons with labels in a
tabular format that will adjust it's layout as the window is resized. 
I am currently using a table widget and have a working resize() method.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to capture any kind of a resize
event other than size_allocate() which unfortunately caused an endless
loop since my resize()ing the table caused another size_allocate()
call apparently.

Reading the docs suggest that what I want to use is a
configure_event handler and that table is one of those special widgets
with no XWindow of it's own, that therefor will not receive
configure_events.  I added my table to an eventbox as mentioned in one
of the tutorials, but I am not receiving any configure events there
either.  I tried adding the button_press_event for a sanity check, and
it is working fine.  I expect that the configure event should occur
when I resize my main window and the table expands as it's container
does (the column spacing increases).  Is this accurate?

Can
someone offer some insight as to what I might be doing wrong?  Is my
entire approach just not appropriate for gtk?  Is there a better way to
capture a "resized" event?  I'm using pygtk, but I think my question is
more fundamental so trying here as well as the pygtk list.

Thanks,

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Darren Hart