Re: configure event in children

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Andreas Bauer
<baueran rsise anu edu au> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 04:10:46PM +0200, Krzesimir Nowak wrote:
>
>> Then why signal_configure_event is part of Gtk::Widget instead of
>> Gtk::Window? Or rather: why "configure-event" is part of GtkWidget
>> instead of GtkWindow? But I suppose this is question for
>> gtk-devel-list.
>
> Moreover, what does setting SUBSTRUCTURE_MASK do then?  I thought this
> bit was responsible for "forwarding" configure events to a window's
> children (at least if I interpret the GTK documentation correctly).

the mask means that the GdkWindow (not GtkWindow) actually gets sent
the relevant window system events to enable GTK+ to deliver configure
events. and as the docs note, you probably should not be thinking
about this.