Re: Hide/Show behavior

[Melvin Hadasht <melvin hadasht free fr>]

> My application creates and destroys GtkFixed containers and the
> containing objects, which could be GtkEntrys, GtkProgressBar, GtkButton,
> and a couple other widgets.  Now, what I'm seeing is that calling
> hide_all() on one GtkFixed and then calling show_all() on another
> GtkFixed results in this progressive hide where, for example, GtkEntrys
> on top of GtkImage diappear first leaving a big hole the color of the
> GtkFixed background.  
> 
> The show commands do the same sort of thing, drawing the GtkEntrys, then
> the images and other widget, and then draw the text in the boxes.

When you create your main widget that contain children widgets, show the
children first, and at last step show the main widget. Then when you need to hide the widgets, hide only the main (toplevel) widget, you do not need to call widget_hide_all(). Hiding a widget hides also its children.

In summary, show the main widget last, and hide it first.