I am trying to create a simple custom GTK widget using Vala:
public class PageView : Gtk.Widget {
public PageView () {
//base ();
set_name ("pageview");
set_has_window (true);
}
/*
* Method and Signal Overrides
*/
public override Gtk.SizeRequestMode get_request_mode () {
return Gtk.SizeRequestMode.CONSTANT_SIZE;
// Don’t trade height-for-width or width-for-height
}
public override void get_preferred_width
(out int minimum,
out int natural) {
stdout.printf ("PageView#get_preferred_width\n");
minimum = natural = pg_pixel_width;
}
public override void get_preferred_height
(out int minimum,
out int natural) {
stdout.printf ("PageView#get_preferred_height\n");
minimum = natural = pg_pixel_height;
}
public override void get_preferred_width_for_height
( int height,
out int minimum,
out int natural) {
stdout.printf ("PageView#get_preferred_width_for_height\n");
minimum = natural = pg_pixel_width;
}
public override void get_preferred_height_for_width
( int width,
out int minimum,
out int natural) {
stdout.printf ("PageView#get_preferred_height_for_width\n");
minimum = natural = pg_pixel_height;
}
public override void size_allocate (Gtk.Allocation alloc) {
stdout.printf ("PageView#size_allocate\n");
set_allocation (alloc);
if (get_window() != null) {
get_window().move_resize (
alloc.x, alloc.y, alloc.width, alloc.height);
}
}
public override void realize () {
stdout.printf ("PageView#realize\n");
set_realized (true);
if (get_window() == null) {
Gtk.Allocation allocation;
get_allocation (out allocation);
_window_attr = Gdk.WindowAttr () {
x = allocation.x,
y = allocation.y,
width = allocation.width,
height = allocation.height,
event_mask = get_events() | Gdk.EventMask.EXPOSURE_MASK,
window_type = Gdk.WindowType.CHILD,
wclass = Gdk.WindowWindowClass.INPUT_OUTPUT
};
_window_attr_type = Gdk.WindowAttributesType.X |
Gdk.WindowAttributesType.Y;
_window = new Gdk.Window (
get_parent_window (), _window_attr, _window_attr_type);
set_window (_window);
}
}
public override void unrealize () {
stdout.printf ("PageView#unrealize\n");
}
public override bool draw (Cairo.Context cr) {
stdout.printf ("PageView#draw\n");
Gtk.Allocation allocation;
get_allocation (out allocation);
get_style_context () .render_background (cr,
allocation.x, allocation.y,
allocation.width, allocation.height);
cr.save ();
cr.scale (allocation.width, allocation.height);
cr.set_source_rgba (255, 255, 0, 1.0);
cr.set_line_width (10);
cr.line_to (1, 1);
cr.stroke ();
cr.restore ();
return true;
}
/*
* Public Attributes
*/
public int pg_pixel_width {
get { return 480; }
}
public int pg_pixel_height {
get { return 480; }
}
/*
* Private Members
*/
private Gdk.Window _window;
private Gdk.WindowAttr _window_attr;
private Gdk.WindowAttributesType _window_attr_type;
}
The problem is that when I add this to my main Gtk.Window I get a segmentation fault. These are the debugging messages I get:
PageView#get_preferred_height
PageView#get_preferred_width
PageView#size_allocate
PageView#realize
PageView#get_preferred_height
PageView#get_preferred_width
PageView#size_allocate
PageView#size_allocate
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
It seems that if I change the call of set_window (_window)
inside realize ()
to set_window(null)
, or if I pass a null parent window to the newly created Gdk.Window, the application runs without segmentation faults (but the widget is not displayed as would be expected in either case). I mostly followed along this example to implement the virtual methods and tried porting the C code in Vala. What could be the cause of the problem?
In the end, I removed
set_has_window(true)
from the constructor and only implemented thedraw()
signal. That seems to have done the trick! Below is the working code segment: