[Gtk-sharp-list] AccessViolationException on StatusIcon.GetGeometry on Windows

[Chris Howie]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Ricardo
Gladwell<ricardo.gladwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, I'd be interested to know if there was a technical reason why the
> StatusIcon wasn't made a sub-class of Gtk.Widget?

Because a Widget is a thing that lives in a Container.  A StatusIcon
lives "outside" of the application, not in any container at all, or
rather not in a container that can be represented as a Container
class.

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