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 > 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 > > 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("<html><head><title>title</title></head><body>body</body></html>") > document.close_stream() > > > window.signal_connect('delete_event') do > Gtk::main_quit > false > end > > > box.pack_start(htmlview) > window.show_all > Gtk::main > >