[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] When is the size of a gnome2 canvas set?

[Brian <ma...@br...>]

Hi all,

I got a problem with the gnome 2 canvases. It may well be, that I don't understand enough of gtk2, but there is so little documentation. (Even though I know that all of you work really hard and good, so no offence meant;).

I create a gtk2 window with a canvas in a a vbox. The canvas fills the complete box, but when I try to initialize my drawings in it, the self.width and self.height return small default values. So my drawings fill only a small part of the canvas.

I assume, that the size is set only after initialization. So I connected to the canvas.realize event, and draw my images there, but that is no help.

If I redraw the images as a reaction to a buttonpress in the running application, the sizes are correct.

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help,

Brian