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In my previous mail the widget had the
GTK_NO_WINDOW widget flag set, Widgets without a window render themselves into
their parent container's GdkWindow.
When i unset this flag (using
unset_flags(Gtk::NO_WINDOW); ) the widget gets painted correctly but i must call
the expose function manually, because the widget does not receive an expose
event anymore.
When the GTK layer receives an exposure event from
GDK, it finds the widget that corresponds to the window which received the
event. By definition, this corresponds to a widget that is not a GTK_NO_WINDOW
widget. First this widget paints its background, and then, if it is a container
widget, it tells each of its GTK_NO_WINDOW children to paint themselves. This
process is applied recursively for all the GTK_NO_WINDOW descendants of the
original widget.
There are some widgets with no associated
GdkWindow; these are called "no window" widgets, an allusion to the
GTK_NO_WINDOW flag that marks them. (You can test this flag with the macro
GTK_WIDGET_NO_WINDOW().) Widgets without a window render themselves into their
parent container's GdkWindow.
Note that this process does not get propagated to
widgets which have windows of their own, that is, to widgets which do not have
the GTK_NO_WINDOW flag set. If such widgets require redrawing, then the
windowing system will already have sent exposure events to their corresponding
windows. As such, there is no need to propagate the exposure to them on the GTK+
side
So the problem is that the windowing system doesn't
send an expose signal to the widget
does anybody how i should change the widget so that
it does?
Marco,
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