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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 11, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkhtml2-blank-window/79062 "2006-12-11T23:18:18Z")\
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**Author:**  [@pjpatten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pjpatten)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkhtml2-blank-window/79062/1 "2006-12-11T23:18:18Z")
hi ho ml :-),
i run into a new problem while writing an gtk application. a lot of
things are working now, but not the gtkhtml2. i tried to put some html
code into the html-document, but i get an blank window only.
i’ve written a working (or better: not working) example. everyone with
an idea is really welcome :-). any suggestion for tutorials, examples or
documentation is also very welcome - google wasn’t really useful. i
found an example on [http://koti.welho.com/jpakaste/blog/2002/index.html](http://koti.welho.com/jpakaste/blog/2002/index.html)
thanks,
patrick
ps. sorry for my tripple sending of my last mail, i had trouble with the
email server
require ‘gtk2’
require ‘gtkhtml2’
Gtk::init
window = Gtk::Window.new
window.border\_width = 10
window.set\_size\_request(600, 400)
window.add(box = Gtk::VBox.new(false, 0))
htmlview = Gtk::HtmlView.new()
document = Gtk::HtmlDocument.new()
document.clear
document.open\_stream(“text/html”)
document.write\_stream(“titlebody”)
document.close\_stream()
window.signal\_connect(‘delete\_event’) do
Gtk::main\_quit
false
end
box.pack\_start(htmlview)
window.show\_all
Gtk::main
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**Author:**  [@pjpatten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pjpatten)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkhtml2-blank-window/79062/2 "2006-12-12T00:24:32Z")
Patrick,
I may be missing something, but it looks like you never add htmlview to
your window, or the vertical box that you’ve created.
-trevor
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**Author:**  [@pjpatten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pjpatten)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkhtml2-blank-window/79062/3 "2006-12-12T00:26:33Z")
Patrick,
I was indeed missing something. That’ll teach me to reply before I
finish
reading code 🙂
-trevor
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**Author:**  [@pjpatten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pjpatten)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkhtml2-blank-window/79062/4 "2006-12-12T00:38:38Z")
Patrick,
I read into it, and it looks like you never connect htmlview and
document.
If you add this somewhere after document is created, I would think it
would help… I’m not sure of the syntax on this one, given that the
article you referenced seems to do things just slightly differently. I
assumed the underscore, just because it’s Ruby, but I could be wrong…
htmlview.set\_document(document)
I even read through all the code this time, and feel that this is a
valid
suggestion 🙂
Hope this works!
-trevor
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**Author:**  [@pjpatten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pjpatten)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkhtml2-blank-window/79062/5 "2006-12-12T00:44:39Z")
Trevor Elliott wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> I was indeed missing something. That’ll teach me to reply before I finish
> reading code 🙂
maybe i should begin with the signal handler next time this could make
the code easier to read.
greetings,
patrick
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**Author:**  [@pjpatten](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pjpatten)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkhtml2-blank-window/79062/6 "2006-12-12T01:00:44Z")
Trevor Elliott schrieb:
> I even read through all the code this time, and feel that this is a valid
> suggestion 🙂
yes, that’s it! thanks :-). it works fine now, i just forgot to connect
the document. the following both lines do the same thing (just for the
archive):
htmlview.set\_document(document)
htmlview.document = document
thanks again and if you will be in germany one time, i’ll get you a
coffee or a tea if you wish 🙂
patrick