Re: Strange bug while subclassing Gtk2::Box

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <ekalin bol com br>]

Jaap Karssenberg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For zim I'm working on a Gtk2::Ex::PathBar class to implement a path
> bar that looks like the one that is found in the gtk filechooser. Now
> I have a strange bug. My implementation works perfectly fine on my own
> system which runs archlinux. But I now get bug reports from people
> with gentoo and slackware systems that my widget doesn't render
> properly. I tried comparing the versions for both gtk+ and gtk2-perl
> running on those systems, as well as compile time options but I didn't
> find anything except for the fact that it works on one distro but not
> on the other.
>
> The problem is this: my widget is a subclass of Gtk2::Box which
> implements size_request and size_allocate. Now on some systems it
> justs works, on other systems it doesn't. When it doesn't the buttons
> are allocated but they don't show up in the widget. But they are
> there, they are clickable - they just don't show.
>
> The code below reproduces the problem. If you do see the buttons that
> means you have one of the systems where it just works, if you see an
> empty space try clicking it, you should see output from the buttons
> being clicked in your terminal.

I'm running Debian, libgtk2-perl version 1.081, gtk version 2.6.10 and I
don't see the buttons, but indeed they're clickable. I'm using the
default gtk theme.

As for the cause, I'm sorry, but I can't help.

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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
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