Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 17:08 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:24:38PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 
> > > Sounds nice -- could come from DJ upgrading GTK functionality.
> > 
> > I was hoping someone else would do the GTK stuff :-)
> >
> 
> I'm working on cleaning up the Gtk code - well, refactoring gui-top-window.c,
> anyway. Hopefully I'll be able to get things into a top-down sorta structure
> that can be easily mapped to C++.

Ah crap, I've got a lot of outstanding changes I had better get merged
if people are quietly refactoring ;)

> Plus, I don't have a clear understanding of what "mapped" and "allocated"
> and "realized" mean in Gtk terms. Does anyone know of a good overview of
> Gtk+?

Our code shouldn't need to care about that.. it should just "work"
without having to manually realize windows. Realized is when the X11 (or
equivalent for other back-ends) resources have been allocated.

I've got a patch sitting somewhere which removes a lot of pointless
calls to gtk_widget_realize().

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