Re: configure event in children

[Krzesimir Nowak <qdlacz gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:32 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Andreas Bauer <baueran rsise anu edu au> wrote:
> >
> > Many thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately, it doesn't make a
> > difference how I connect.  And to be honest, I would not have expected
> > it to either.  As far as I understand, the difference between connect
> > and connect_notify is merely that in the first case you connect to a
> > function which has the same signature as the default handler, and in
> > the other to a function without return value.
> 
> Only top level windows receive configure events.  They do not
> propagate to the window's children, at least not directly. The top
> level window may, of course, start a resize or some other process that
> will end up emitting various related signals for the children. But a
> configure event has no meaning unless the widget is a top level window
> of the backend window system (X11, Quartz, win32 etc).
> 
> --p

Then why signal_configure_event is part of Gtk::Widget instead of
Gtk::Window? Or rather: why "configure-event" is part of GtkWidget
instead of GtkWindow? But I suppose this is question for gtk-devel-list.

Krzesimir Nowak