[Glade-users] Unable to see child widgets

[Damon Chaplin]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 02:27, Eric Stanley wrote:
> I have a project that appears to be stored correctly in the .glade file and 
> libglade can read it correctly.  When I bring it up in glade, however, I 
> cannot see some of the more nested widgets.  The following is the structure 
> of my widgets (copied from the .glade file, indentations indicating nesting):
> 
> <widget class="GtkWindow" id="windowMain">
>     <widget class="GtkVBox" id="vbox1">
> 	<widget class="GtkMenuBar" id="menubar1">
> 	    <snip menu because it's probably irrelavent to the question>
> 	<widget class="GtkNotebook" id="notebook1">
> 	    <widget class="GtkHPaned" id="hpaned1">
> 		<widget class="GtkVBox" id="vbox2">
> 		    <widget class="GtkToolbar" id="toolbar2">
> 			<widget class="button" id="buttonContactFolderAdd">
> 			<widget class="button" id="buttonContactFolderDelete">
> 		    <widget class="GtkScrolledWindow" id="scrolledwindow5">
> 			<widget class="GtkTreeView" id="treeviewContactFolders">
> 	    <widget class="GtkLabel" id="notebookContacts">
> 	    <widget class="GtkLabel" id="labelTBD">
> 	    <widget class="GtkLabel" id="TDB">
> 
> The problem is that the most nested widget I can see is hpaned1.  Since it is 
> not apparent here, the second widget in my hpaned1 is currently
> 	<child>
> 		<placeholder/>
> 	</child>
> 
> Is this a bug or is there some way to drill down further that I have missed.

What do you see inside the paned widget hpaned1? Is it blank or is it a
Glade placeholder widget (grey mesh pattern)?

Maybe the pane is all the way over one side so you can't see the other
widget. Try changing the pane position.

I haven't heard of any problems with the paned widget before.

Damon