Re: why on_configure_event() is never called here ?

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 00:56 -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: 
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 22:45 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: 
> > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Renato Merli<merli renato gmail com> wrote:
> > > class myCtn : public Gtk::Fixed
> > > {
> > >
> > >    public:
> > >        Gtk::Button btn;
> > >        int x, y;
> > >
> > >     bool on_configure_event (GdkEventConfigure *e)
> > 
> > only top level windows receive configure events.
> 
> The following excerpt from this (old?) event docs:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/sec-gdkevent.html, seems to say
> something different (see the last paragraph of the excerpt):
[snipped]

By the way, when I posted this, I wasn't trying to be contradictory.  I
was investigating your answer and bumped into the docs which sort of
confused me so I posted it as is.

Chris' and the original poster's answers made it a little clearer for
me.  Thanks to them and you.

-- 
José Alburquerque