Application development books (OT?)

2009-09-11 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone I have received great advice from this list in the past. My Son was diagnosed with Autism(he is getting much better now) and I shelved a project I was working on for almost 2 years. I am still stuck in the planning stage but I am ready to go forward again. I want to avoid re-inventin

Getting/Setting "reasonable" default size for a widget

2009-09-11 Thread Peter Daum
How can I set some "reasonable" default size for a widget without hindering resizing? I have stumbled across this on many occasions, the nastiest is a TreeView widget within a ScrolledWindow, particularly if the number of lines/columns: Without any size requests and with the scrolling policy set

FW: why do constructors return GtkWidget?

2009-09-11 Thread Boggess Rod
Didn't mean to exclude the group from this. Outlook, what can I say? > -Original Message- > From: Emmanuel Touzery [mailto:emmanuel.touz...@free.fr] > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:46 AM > To: Boggess Rod > Subject: Re: why do constructors return GtkWidget? > > Hi, > > Well, althou

Re: FW: why do constructors return GtkWidget?

2009-09-11 Thread Emmanuel Touzery
Didn't mean to exclude the group from this. Outlook, what can I say? OK and I didn't expect you to send that private answer on a public mailing list :-( ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/

memory leak https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558594

2009-09-11 Thread Basile STARYNKEVITCH
Hello All, The bug 558594 does show a reproductible memory leak (on Linux/Debian/Sid with libgtk2.0-0 2.16.6-1). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558594 I did read the source code and did not found any apparent leak (that is, in my understanding of Gtk & Glib documentation, the code sh

right-click menu (bonobo UI) states

2009-09-11 Thread Davide Alberani
Hi, I have a problem setting attributes like "sensitive" and "state" (for radio buttons) in a right-click menu created using the bonobo UI XML. For example, the Python code below - in large amount taken from the documentation - doesn't show any entry in the menu. Adding the label to the "menuitem"

Re: Idle Function Not Getting Called

2009-09-11 Thread Marshall Lake
Then you must have some function blocking between your call to g_idle_add_full() and control returning to the main loop. Anything in a GTK+ signal or event handler must not block. This means in practice that nothing should block after your call to gtk_main(). After spending more time with