From: Olivier Andrieu <andrieu at ijm.jussieu.fr>
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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:20:58 +0100
To: stalkern2 at tin.it
Cc: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: Re: trouble in creating a drawing area on (still) not shown window; GPointer.Null exception
In-Reply-To: <200303251756.31234.stalkern2 at tin.it>
References: <200303251756.31234.stalkern2 at tin.it>

 Stalkern 2 [Tuesday 25 March 2003] :
 >
 > Hello to everybody
 > 
 > I have a basic question: what's the clean approach for setting callbacks in 
 > window1 to a drawing area in window2 if window2 IS NOT SHOWN YET? 

I think you want to 'realize' the window. That is, GTK asks the X
server to create the window, but does not map (show) it yet.

 area#misc#realize ()

This should avoid the GPointer.Null exception.

-- 
   Olivier