Re: manipulating things packed into GtkContainers

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy irtech cn ua>]

Shark wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  In the application I'm working on I have a GtkVBox which holds two
>  widgets (a GtkCheckButton and a GtkTreeview) and I would like to remove
>  both of those and put in different widgets of the same type, and I'd
>  like to add them to the container so they are in the same order as the
>  ones I removed.
> Right now I can get the widgets by getting the GList of children from
> gtk_container_get_children(), and traversing the GList until
> GTK_IS_CHECK_BUTTON or IS_TREEVIEW returns true... but is there any
> GtkContainer function to get the position of an argument widget *, and
> another function to insert the given widget * into a given position?
> I know I could just use gtk_box_pack_start() or _end() to add the
> checkbutton or treeview to the top or bottom of the VBox, but I had hoped
> to be able to modify the order of those two widgets in glade and just
> replace them at run time with the widgets I'd actually create in my code.
>  (And there are actually like three treeviews I'll be switching between,
> so I can't just use the one that glade produces.)
> If anyone understands me well enough to help, that'd be great. :) Thanks!
>
> -Peter
>
> p.s. what would be really nice is if I could just do
> gtk_container_switch(container, widget_to_remove, widget_to_replace).
>  
Hi,
I think you can do this with:
gtk_widget_reparent() - 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-reparent
gtk_box_reorder_child() - 
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkBox.html#gtk-box-reorder-child

   Olexiy