Re: bug in gtk_widget_show_all or bug in my understanding

[Daniel Weber <DWEBER1 austin rr com>]

Bob Lissner wrote:

> Daniel Weber wrote:
> >
> > Bob Lissner wrote:
> >
> > > I build a window full of all sorts of stuff.
> > > At the end i gtk_widget_show_all (thewindow);
> > >
> > >   menu = gtk_menu_new ();
> > >
> > >       menu_item = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label ("HTML");
> > >     /* gtk_widget_show (menu_item);  */
> > >     gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (menu_item),
> > >                         "select",
> > >                         GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (fileio_type_change),(gpointer) 2);
> > >     gtk_menu_append (GTK_MENU(menu), menu_item);
> > >
> > >
> > >   type_button = gtk_option_menu_new ();
> > >   gtk_option_menu_set_menu (GTK_OPTION_MENU (type_button), menu);
> > >   type_hbox = gtk_hbox_new (FALSE, 5);
> > >
> > > Note that the gtk_widget_show is commented out.  The menu shows, but
> > > with no text displayed. If I open up the menu,
> > > the words are there, but they won't display at the top of the menu.
> > >
> > >   If I remove the /* */ then everything works fine.
> > >
> > > Question:  why doesn't the show_all pick up this menu?
> > >
>
> > Have you tried moving the show after the append?
>
> That's not quite the issue.  I should be able to entirely omit the
> gtk_widget_show because at the end of building the window
> i issue gtk_widget_show_all.  The question is:  why do I have to issue
> the gtk_widget_show to make the menu item show?  The show_all
> should take care of that.
>
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I could be confused, but I was under the impression that for widgets you have to
set the widget visable and then run the show command on the parent widget.  If the
child widget is not set visable until after the show command, then the show
command won't make it visible.  I could be completely off base here, though.....
I'm just learning the toolset myselft...