Re: Setting the default page to a Notebook at application start time.

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 08:15 -0500, Robert Caryl wrote:
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> You may want to share your demo program source with us.
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> Joaquim Duran wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm interested to show several widgets (one at a time) at the same
> place 
> > on the screen. To do that, I've decided to use a Notebook container 
> > (each widget is set in a page) and setting 'set_show_tabs' to
> false. 
> > Also, I'm interested in show the same widget that the user was
> working 
> > when he closed the application.
> >
> > I've create a demo program: inside a VBox container I've created a 
> > Notebook object, including others widgets. From the constructor of
> the 
> > VBox derived class, 3 pages are added to the notebook. After that,
> the 
> > function member 'set_active_page(1)' is called.
> >
> > When the application starts, always, the page number 0 is shown to
> the user.
> >
> > Is there any way to implement the described behavior? Doesn't
> Notebook 
> > till it has been drawn to the screen?

I notice that the GtkNotebook documetnation has been updated:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkNotebook.html#gtk-notebook-set-current-page

"
Note that due to historical reasons, GtkNotebook refuses to switch to a
page unless the child widget is visible. Therefore, it is recommended to
show child widgets before adding them to a notebook.
"

Maybe this is relevant?

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