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Message-ID: <16507.26284.797755.358642 at soggy.deldotd.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:03:56 -0700
To: lablgtk at kaba.or.jp
Subject: as_widget or coerce with pack ?
From: briand at aracnet.com


For various reasons which are probably related to poor design I find
myself having to delay the packing of widgets.

So eventually I got to the point where the following worked :

      vb#pack(gl_area#coerce);


However the README says :

  * an as_widget method, returning the raw Gtk widget used for packing, etc...

So I would have expected gl_area#as_widget to work, which it does not.

So I went and found the method definitions:

     method as_widget : Gtk.widget obj
     method coerce : widget

So as I understand it, as_widget is the "raw" Gtk widget, whereas
widget is the widget representation under the lablgtk class scheme.

More simply, it appears that pack takes and argument of widget, i.e a
"generic" widget under the lablgtk class system and not a "raw widget"
which corresponds to the underlying gtk widget representation.

Am I right ?

Thanks


Brian