Re: Adding widgets to a container at a specific index

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

nicholas allen <nicholas allen ireland sun com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to add widgets to a container at a specific index
> (ie insert widgets so that they can appear under or over other
> widgets). I need to do this for a Java peer set I'm working on. Java
> wants to add the widgets under each other (ie widgets added later
> appear below other widgets - I find this weird!) but Gtk works the
> other way round. So I need to add widgets at the start of the widget
> list and not the end.
>
> Thanks for any help....

Not currently possible, and not scheduled for 2.0. It's in
Bugzilla as:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7959

What I'd do is probably write a custom container - cut and paste the
GtkFixed code - and add the facility yourself. By reversing the order
of the forall() callback and using gdk_window_raise() if you need to
control stacking order for window widgets later on, you should be able
to get the effect you want.

Regards,
                                        Owen