This won't show correct values until a size_allocate event occurs. This is what I do inside my draw routine which gets called during a size_allocate event. Before the size_allocate event, both width and height are set to 1.
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:49:40AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > > Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >I have a gnome_canvas packed into a vbox. All drawing in the canvas is > > >connected to a size_allocate event because I need to know the width and > > >height of the area before drawing. > > > > don't do this. a size allocate will always be followed by an expose > > event. all drawing must be done from the expose event handler, always. > > just store the width and height in the size allocate handler for later > > use. if for some reason, the expose event is really missing, use > > gtk_widget_queue_draw() to cause one to occur "soon". > > Note also that you can simply get the current width and height > of the canvas with: > > canvas->allocation.width > canvas->allocation.height > > Regards, > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list