Re: get_window() question

["Marco Scholten" <mscholtn xs4all nl>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:31:34 -0700, Andrew Shafer <shafer realmsys com>  
wrote:

> I have classes derived from Gtk::Button packed inside of a VBox inside
> of an EventBox.
>
> When I call get_window() on any of the buttons, I don't get back the
> Gdk::Window that encloses the button.  The window is the size of the
> Vbox/EventBox.
>
> I can see the buttons have their own X windows running xwininfo, but I
> can't seem to get a hold of individual Gdk::Windows.

I'm not familiar with xwininfo but afaik a Gtk::Button does not have a
Gdk::Window, you can check this with Gtk::Widget::has_no_window().
I believe that a button has an input only window for catching events,
maybe that's what xwininfo shows.

> My main question is how can I get the individual windows? And a
> secondary but related question is, why does get_window() return the
> parent window?

get_window() on a windowless widget returns its parents window, so
i think your solution would be to put each individual button in an
EventBox.

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Marco