Re: Order of children in Box

[jcupitt gmail com]

On 25/02/2008, Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish earthlink net> wrote:
> jcupitt gmail com wrote:
>  > Generally the most recently added child of any
>  > gtkcontainer is at the head of the list.
>  >
>
> > However ...
> > you can't really rely on it 100%.
>
> Yes, I too have observed this behavior when I use foreach or get_children.
>  I was wondering whether I could count on it.  You say that I cannot.  If I
>  cannot count on these functions to preserve order, I am wondering what
>  function I can count on.  Would there not have to be a function for getting

You're pretty safe with gtkbox I would think. I just mean that
subclasses can change this behaviour and could break your code some
time in the future. But you ought to be OK.

John