Re: Where to place init code (in which event handler) needing custom widget's window mapped?

[Marco <mscholtn xs4all nl>]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:40:05 +0100, David Sillou <silloudavid yahoo fr>  
wrote:

> Hello,
> I need to execute various initialization code in a derived widget; That  
> code  need to be executed only one time but it also need that widget's  
> window is mapped since i need to perform few operation (xine related  
> stuff) on that window (GDK object).
>
> Could someone please tell me where is the best place to put that code?

try on_realize()
in that function call on_realize() on the parent first and then do your  
initialization.

> Is there any available documentation that could help me to have a better  
> idea of when and why events are fired in a typical widget's life (for  
> example: relation between widget's state and events ) ?  It's rather  
> difficult to find out in which circumstances events are fired for a  
> beginner; Studying xlib (and gtk) helped me  but it remains obscure to  
> me.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/z57.html

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Marco