Re: [Chicken-users] Strange behaviour of bb

[felix winkelmann]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:53:45 +0100, Thomas Chust <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I implemented a GUI with bb yesterday and ran into the following curious
> behaviour: If I set the title of a window using (set! (bb:property ...
> 'text) "foo") *before* I run (bb:show ...) on the window, the title will
> not be what was set but rather some random characters! If the title is
> set *after* calling bb:show on the window, everything works fine.
> 
> Does anyone know why this is the case? Is this a problem with FLTK or
> bb? Or is it just a feature I don't know of...
> 

AFAICT it's a misfeature of FLTK. There are several things that work
only at specific points of time. For example setting the 'resizable
widget of a container is only effective when done *before* doing
the wirst bb:show.


cheers,
felix