[pygtk] Accessing child widgets via instance variables

[Drew Vogel]

Apparently when I inherit from gtk.Window it program segfaults. The
segfault message was just not displayed when I ran it from vim.

Drew



Drew Vogel wrote:
> If I inherit from gtk.Window as such:
>
>     class DocWindow(gtk.Window, libglade.GladeWrapper):
>
> then program exits unexpectedly without any console output so I assumed
> that pygtk did not allow this. Therefore, since my DocWindow class does
> not inherit from gtk.Window, it has no show() method of it's own. If
> this still isn't clear I will paste a test case.
>
> Drew
>
>
>
> Dominic Salemno wrote:
>   
>> Greetings,
>>
>> If my_win is already an instance of GtkWindow then to show it you merely 
>> do something along this line: my_win.show()
>>
>> You should not have to do anything afterwards. If my_win does not 
>> represent your window, what is this representing? If something else 
>> entirely, choose a different variable name. Perhaps you could paste more 
>> code for us to see?
>>
>> Your variable, if it indeed defines a GtkWindow, should be declared as 
>> follows:
>>
>>     self.my_win = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
>>
>> Even if my_win is instantiating a custom class which in turn is 
>> inheriting from gtk.Window, you would still perform the following to 
>> show the window: self.my_win.show()
>>
>> If this is not working, please paste more code.
>>
>> Sincerely, Dominic Salemno.
>>
>>
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Drew Vogel wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Thanks, I have this mostly working. However it looks like instead of calling
>>>>
>>>> my_win.show()
>>>>
>>>> I now have to call
>>>>
>>>> my_win.GtkWindow.show()
>>>>
>>>> Is this correct?
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Yes. my_win.GtkWindow is just a shortcut I thought was useful.
>>> To access other widgets, just use my_win.id.
>>>
>>> Pádraig.
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