[Glade-users] Glad + pixbuf problem

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 18:51, John Coppens wrote:
> Not a programming genius to begin with, I'm stuck trying to get an image
> loaded into a drawable, using Glade and GTK 1.2xx!
>
> I'm trying to load a .jpeg onto a gnome_canvas... All the rest works - I
> can show any gnome_canvas_item, without problem, but there seems to be a
> problem with the image.
>
> I load the image with gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file, no errors.
> I then call gnome_canvas_set_scroll_region, which works, as the 
scrollbars
> appear to show that the size I asked for is larger than the screen size.
>
> Then I try to show it with:
>
>   map = gnome_canvas_item_new(grp,
>     gnome_canvas_image_get_type(),
>     "pixbuf", myImage,
>     "x", 0.0, "y", 0.0, "width", 800.0, "height", 400.0,
>     "anchor", GTK_ANCHOR_CENTER, NULL);
>   gdk_pixbuf_unref(myImage);
>
> Which has no effect at all.
>
> I suspect that there may be some compatibility problem with
> 'gnome_canvas_image_get_type' and 'pixbuf'. I'm not sure where the 
problem
> lies though.

You may just need to do a gnome_canvas_item_show() on it.
I've often had silly problems like that with GnomeCanvas.

Damon