[Glade-users] Realize event problem

[Tristan Van Berkom]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Coppens <john at jcoppens.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> A newbie question (I don't use C++ too often, so this may be a lack of
> experience). Composed with Glade (3.12, I believe):
>
> - I have a window with a notebook.
> - A (different) ScrolledWindow with a TextView in each page.
> - Connected a function to the ...realize event of each, before
>  calling the .run() method of the main program.
>
> Page 1 and 2 receive the realize event. Page 0 doesn't. I suppose this
> is because the textview is rendered on startup, and the events to page
> 1 and 2 only appear on changing pages.
>
> But how can I get the realize event from page 0?
> Does Gtk::Builder::create_from_file actually show() all the widgets
> too? And even so, are the widgets realized before the kit.run() call?
>

Make sure your toplevel window defined in Glade has it's
"visible" property explicitly set to FALSE.

Otherwise it will be shown and it's contents realized before
gtk_builder_add_from_[somthing]() returns.

Cheers,
           -Tristan