Gtk.ShortcutsWindow showing nothing but a search button (Gtk 3.24)

[be1]

Hello,

In Vala, I’m loading a shortcuts.ui resource with a Gtk.Builder, then I fetch the Gtk.ShortcutsWindow by its identifier, set it transient to my Gtk.ApplicationWindow and call present() on it. The result is an empty window with a search button. When I type some letters, the filtered shortcuts do appear at last. I expected them to be all shown at startup and not only while i am typing some search query. What’s wrong ?

Here is the beginning of the shortcuts.ui:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<interface>
  <object class="GtkShortcutsWindow" id="shortcuts-window">
    <property name="title" translatable="yes">Keyboard shortcuts</property>
    <property name="modal">true</property>
    <child>
      <object class="GtkShortcutsSection" id="shortcuts-section">
        <property name="section-name">Shortcuts</property>
        <property name="max-height">12</property>
        <property name="visible">true</property>
        <child>
          <object class="GtkShortcutsGroup">
            <property name="title" translatable="yes">Tasks</property>
            <child>
              <object class="GtkShortcutsShortcut">
                <property name="accelerator">&lt;ctrl&gt;S</property>
                <property name="title" translatable="yes">Sort completed tasks</property>
              </object>
            </child>
            <child>
            ... and so on...

The relevant loading part is as follow:

            var builder = new Gtk.Builder ();
            builder.add_from_resource ("/bar/foo/shortcuts.ui");
            var window = builder.get_object ("shortcuts-window") as Gtk.ShortcutsWindow;
            window.set_transient_for (this);
            window.present ();

After some research on the web, I tested seveal tricks but they did not change anything to this. I’d be grateful for some help :'-) Oh by the way, I’m using Gtk 3.24.

[chrisaw (Chris Williams)]

In GTK3, widgets are not visible by default, so each of the widgets in your ui file needs to set the visible property (or you’d need to call window.show_all()).

That is no longer the case in GTK4.

[be1]

Oh thank you @chrisaw! I tried window.show_all () but that was not enough, I don’t know why. I had to set all widget the visible property to true in the shortcuts.ui resource and this worked at last! Many thanks for your quick answer!