Re: replacing widgets in packing boxes

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Dirk Koopman wrote:

> > I have the reference "$widget" available to me as well as its  
> > parent's.
>
> So to answer my own question for now: I create an empty vbox() and
> remember its reference (a palaver in itself) and then remove any old
> widget (maybe none) and (re-)pack_start the new one. The vbox() will
> only have one item in it which will fill it to the maximum space
> allowed.

If you have the child of the vbox, you can avoid keeping the  
reference tothe vbox itself by doing  $vbox = $widget->get_parent.   
Depends on how much bookkeeping overhead it is.


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