Re: custom widget example

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

Thanks.

Remember that I tried to use GtkLabel as an example.

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 13:44 +0100, Marco wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>
> To: "Marco" <mscholtn xs4all nl>
> Cc: "gtkmm-list" <gtkmm-list gnome org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:33 PM
> Subject: Re: custom widget example
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 09:21 +0100, Marco wrote:
> >> Even better when i don't change m_RefGC because this also changes the
> >> style of the other widgets (in this case the button)
> >>
> >> Could it be that Gdk::Window::create() creates a refptr to a copy, and
> >> we are then painting on the wrong window?
> >
> > I am not sure what you mean. create() creates a new instance, which you
> > access via a RefPtr.
> 
> That's what i meant, this new instance is in no way connacted to the widget, 
> so we are drawing somewhere in memory but it never gets displayed (i think).
> 
> There is still the problem now that it is not really the widget that gets 
> painted but its parent window.
> So i tried:
> unset_flags(Gtk::NO_WINDOW);
> set_window( Gdk::Window::create(get_window() /* parent */, &attributes, 
> GDK_WA_X | GDK_WA_Y) );
> m_refGdkWindow = get_window();
> 
> It works but now the widget doesn't receive an expose event anymore.
> 
> > [snip]
> >> //    m_refGdkWindow = Gdk::Window::create(get_window() /* parent */,
> >> &attributes, GDK_WA_X | GDK_WA_Y);
> >>     m_refGdkWindow = get_window();
> >
> > Thanks a lot. That works, though I don't know why it didn't work before.
> >
> > I have committed the change to cvs. Please try to create a cvs patch in
> > future - it's easier for us to see what has actually changed:
> > http://www.gtkmm.org/bugs.shtml#CreatingPatches
> 
> Ok i will do that in future, i will try to fix the example later this week 
> and create a patch.
> 
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