Re: Preventing child widgets form beeing deleted?

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico redhat com>]

>  I use a tbel to show icons in a scrolled window. Icons should be
>  removed from and added to the table dynamically. What I do now is
>  destry the table widget and recreate the tabel everytime something
>  changes. But as all widgets that are in the table get destroyed 
>  when teh table is destroyed, I have to recreate them everytime, which
>  generates a lot of overhead for huge tables.
>  
>  The easiest way to avoid this would be to reuse the widgets which
>  have been in the table. I store those pointers anyway, but they
>  are not valid once the table widget has been destroyed. 
>  
>  Another (nicer...) solution would be a table_unatach function, which
>  removes a table cell. But I found neiter one....

1. You can use gtk_container_remove() to remove them from the table.
2. You should be using the GnomeIconList widget.

  Federico