Re: GTKLabel

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 03/10/01 budman wrote:
> I'm writing an applet that uses GTKLabel.  It works fine, except ...
> using the set_text, if the label contains the same text as the update, it zeros
> out the text.
> I ended up clearing the label text, then writing the new data.        

That is really strange: something other than that must be happening. 
Try:
use Gtk qw(-init);

$w=new Gtk::Window;
$l = new Gtk::Label('a');
$w->add($l);
$w->show_all; 
Gtk->timeout_add(1000, sub{
        $l->set_text($l->get)
});
Gtk->main;

It works fine here.

Maybe it's a bug in the expose of the GtkFixed container when it's
embedded in the panel?

>       I originally used a vbox, but then chose a fixed widget so I can place
> a pixmap on the bkgnd.

Wrong way to do it.

>       Is there a way to place a xpm pixmap as a background image?  (like the
> tiles on the panel)
>       I was reading about the style widget - can I assign a pixmap background
> using style, and vbox?

Check Gtk/samples/gtkrctest.pl in the cvs sources.
Or you can use $widget->window->set_back_pixmap($pixmap, $parent_rel);

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