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List:       gtk-app-devel
Subject:    Label string affecting statusbar?
From:       "Brent M. Hendricks" <brentmh () rice ! edu>
Date:       1999-02-25 8:01:20
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Greetings,

I have a really bizzare problem invilving labels and a statusbar.  Here's
the deal.  In one part of my program, I initialize some labels:

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playArea->tallys[0] = gtk_label_new("                   ");
playArea->tallys[1] = gtk_label_new("                   ");
playArea->tallys[2] = gtk_label_new("                   ");
playArea->tallys[3] = gtk_label_new("                   ");
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I intialize them to be long strings of spaces so that when later in my
program I have things to put there, the labels will not force the window to
resize.

Then, in another part of my program I have a status bar that I write to like
this:

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va_start( ap, format);
message = g_strdup_vprintf(format, ap);
va_end(ap);

gtk_statusbar_push( GTK_STATUSBAR(statusBar), id, message );

g_free( message );
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These two code sections shouldn't have anything to do with each other. When
I run the program, at certain times, the status bar will unexpectedly go
blank instead of displaying the specified text.  If I change the label
initializations to just "", I get the correct behavior.

I am thoroughly confused, and don't see how the two are connected. If you
would like to look the at complete code, it's available at

http://www.ece.rice.edu/~brentmh/NetSpades-4.1.2pre1.tar.gz  

The label init gets done in CreatePlayArea() in gtk_play.c and the statusbar
stuff gets done in DisplayStatusLine() in gtk_io.c

Thanks for any help you can offer.
--Brent

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