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

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

muppet wrote:

> 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.
I see.
Thankyou both.

One more small problem ... the buttons I get in the dialog are pressed 
hard against the right-hand side of the dialog ( when the text of my 
message is longer than the 2 buttons ). I could add an hbox with 
homogeneous spacing and add buttons to that, but is there an easier way 
of getting the buttons evenly spaced across the dialog?

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