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sledgehammer_999 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

I am really confused about this. I am using gtkmm and I want to do something really simple. Just add a button to my window!!! I am able to create the window and add the button, but the button is as big as the window. After a little more reading I figure out that I need to use a container. So Gtk::Fixed is what I need. But here is the problem:

I add() the button to the container. Then I add() the container to the window. And then show the window. But nothing is displayed, only the window. How do I display my button(and possibly other widgets)?? can you give an example code? This is driving me crazy. Am I forgetting something?

thank you

sledgehammer_999 · Familiar Face Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 7

Solved.

I was declaring the container and button in the source file and not the header file. Once I declared these widgets as "protected" members in my window-class prototype in the header file everything worked fine.I can finally sleep!!!