Re: Gtk2::Dialog ... adding a label

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Tuesday, May 25, 2004, at 08:10 PM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:

> * Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au> [2004-05-26 01:56]:
> >    my $label = Gtk2::Label->new ($message);
> >    $dialog->vbox->add ($label);
>      $label->show();

less succinctly...  ;-)

your label was indeed being added, it just wasn't being shown, because 
you didn't ask for it to be shown.
Gtk2::Dialog::run() (actually gtk_dialog_run()) calls 
Gtk2::Widget::show() (or gtk_widget_show()) on the dialog under the 
hood.
gtk_widget_show() only shows the widget on which you call it.  it will 
not show all of that widget's children.  gtk_widget_show_all() (or 
Gtk2::Widget::show_all() in perl) does that, but it's not always a good 
idea to call show_all(), as there may be some children which are 
intentionally not visible.

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