Re: why is class HelloWorld : public Gtk::Window ?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 09:06 -0500, Damon Register wrote:
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Your window probably just has visible-true in the Glade defnition,
> > meaning that it is visible as soon as you parse the Glade file. I have
> Mine is set to false
> 
> > never seen the point of that Glade/libglade feature myself - it confuses
> > many people.
> Yes, it does confuse me but I am less bothered by whether or not the
> glade window is visible or not and more bothered by the existence of two
> windows, visible or not.  Now if I understand correctly, this
> 
>    hello window;
> 
> creates one Gtk::Window instance because
> 
>    class hello : public Gtk::Window
> 
> Next, in main()
> 
>      xml_interface = Gtk::Builder::create_from_file("hello.xml");
> 
> creates a second invisible (because visible is False in the Glade
> file) Gtk::Window instance.
[snip]

If you use the derived window system, you should get only one window.
The class instance will use the one that you get from Glade.

But maybe there's a bug. If so, please do file a bug report with a test
case.

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