Re: Displaying packed widgets

[Marco <mscholtn xs4all nl>]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:11:35 -0500, jjjj <jalqadir netscape net> wrote:

> I have a class that derives from Gtk::VBox, called jme::Contacts;  
> jme::Contacts is in turn used by the jme::MainWin class as one of its  
> attributes, named 'contact'. However, when the object 'contact' is  
> passed to a Gtk::Notebook as one of its tabs:
>
> notebook->append_page(*contacts, "Contacts");
>
> none of the characteristics of the object 'contacts'(Frame and title of  
> the frame) are displayed.
>
> Below is a quick snip of the class in question.
> =============
> #include <gtkmm/box.h>
> #include <gtkmm/frame.h>
>
> namespace jme{
>
> class Contacts : virtual public Gtk::VBox{
> private:
>    void HBox1();
>    void NameFrame();
> protected:
>     Gtk::HBox*  hbox1;
>    Gtk::Frame* frmName;
>     public:
>        Contacts();
>        virtual ~Contacts();
> }; //class
> } // namespace
> #endif
>
> jme::Contacts::Contacts(){
>    try{
>       hbox1   = new Gtk::HBox();
>       frmName = new Gtk::Frame("Name");
>    }
>    catch ( std::bad_alloc & x ) {std::cout << x.what() << std::endl;   }
>
>    this->NameFrame(); //Add more attributes to the frame
>      this->HBox1();     // Add objects to this->hbox1
> }
> void jme::Contacts::NameFrame(){
>
>    frmName->add(dynamic_cast<Gtk::Widget&>(*lblFirstName));
> }
> void jme::Contacts::HBox1(){
>    hbox1->set_border_width(50);
>
>    hbox1->pack_start(*frmName, Gtk::PACK_EXPAND_WIDGET);
>
>    hbox1->show_all_children(true);
> }

You forgot to add hbox1 to contacts
add to jme::Contacts::Contacts():
this->add(*hbox1);

--
Marco