Re: Gtk::VBox problem in 0.97

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 06:40 AM, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:

> The following code works well in 0.96, but not in 0.97.
>
>     my $notebook = Gtk2::Notebook->new();
>
>     $vbox = Gtk2::VBox->new();
>     $notebook->append_page($vbox, "Title");
>
> With 0.97, the error message is
>
>     variable is not of type Gtk2::Widget at CCat/UI/Main.pm line 62.

The second argument to Gtk2::Notebook->append_page must be a widget.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkNotebook.html#gtk- 
notebook-append-page

something as simple as

   $notebook->append_page ($vbox, Gtk2::Label->new ('Title'));

will do the trick.

this should go into the FAQ.  unless...


the rationale behind Gtk taking a widget here is that you can have  
anything you want as the notebook's tab label; a common variant is an  
HBox with a label and a button that closes the tab.

we had some discussion a while back about automatically turning strings  
passed into this set of functions into labels, and keeping other  
variables as widgets.  posted something about the complications arising  
from adding the necessary magic to do the auto-labelification of  
strings, but never got a response, so i never committed my code to  
implement it.

   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-perl-list/2003-July/msg00086.html