Hi, This is my first attempt to use Gtk (version 2.12.11). So I used Gladeto create my GUI and used GtkBuilder and Vala as programming language. For the moment, I only tried a very simple thing: show the main windowusing GtkBuilder. The code is as follows: public class Main{ private static MailBrowser app; public static int main (string[] args) { Gtk.init (ref args); app = new MailBrowser(); app.run(); return 0; }} public class MailBrowser { private Gtk.Builder builder; private Gtk.Widget main_window; construct { try { builder = new Gtk.Builder(); builder.add_from_file("MailBrowser.ui"); main_window = (Gtk.Widget) builder.get_object("main_window"); main_window.destroy += Gtk.main_quit; } catch (GLib.Error err) { var msg = new Gtk.MessageDialog ( null, Gtk.DialogFlags.MODAL, Gtk.MessageType.ERROR, Gtk.ButtonsType.CANCEL, "Failed to load UI\n" + err.message); msg.run(); Gtk.main_quit(); } } public void show_all(){ main_window.show_all(); } public void run(){ show_all(); Gtk.main(); } } Compilation runs fine, but when I execute the program I get: (MailBrowser:9851): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_show_all: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed Then, nothing happens. I suppose the program is waiting for the mainwindow to be closed, but since the above error prevert the main windowto be shown, nothing happens.Ctrl-C quits the program. I don't think there is a problem in my xml ui description file. itlooks like: <?xml version="1.0"?><interface> <requires lib="gtk+" version="2.12"/> <object class="GtkWindow" id="main_window"> <child> <!-- .. --> </child> </object></interface> Is there a solution? Thanks. Mildred -- Mildred Ki'Lya╭───────── mildred593@online.fr ──────────│ Jabber, GoogleTalk: <mildred@xxxxxxxxx>│ Site: <http://ki.lya.online.fr> GPG ID: 9A7D 2E2B│ Fingerprint: 197C A7E6 645B 4299 6D37 684B 6F9D A8D6 9A7D 2E2B_______________________________________________gtk-list mailing listgtk-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list