Re: Display a popup when showing a container.

[joaquimduran adtelecom es]

On Thu 04/12/08 07:04 , José Alburquerque jaalburquerque cox net sent:
> joa
> quimduran adtelecom es said the following:> Dear all,
> >
> > I need to show a custom popup to ask some
> configuration parameters when a frame> is shown to the user for first time (it's shown
> inside a notebook).>
> > My idea to implement the behaviour was to overload
> the on_show member functions of> the frame nad use if to display the
> popup:>
> > on_show()
> > {
> >   Frame::on_Show();
> >   NewDialog dialog();
> >   dialog.run();
> >   [....]
> > }
> >
> > Do you know if this behaviour could be a problem
> for Gtkmm? Is there any other way to> implement it?
> >   
> 
> Maybe using Gtk::Widget::signal_expose_event() and 
> Gtk::Widget::signal_hide() to know when the frame is shown.  You may 
> have to use Gtk::Widget::set_events() or Gtk::Widget::add_events() to 
> ensure that the frame emits the signals.  HTH.
> 

I'll try it. Thanks for your suggestion.

Joaquim