Re: pack a window in a window

[Lourens van der Vliet <lvliet home nl>]

Maciej Katafiasz wrote:

> Dnia 26-09-2004, nie o godzinie 01:26 +0200, Lourens van der Vliet
> napisal:
>  
>
> > Could anyone tell me how to pack a GtkWindow in a GtkBox. I would 
> > like to use this feature to build a program just like a Druid.
> >   
>
>
> Err, you can't do this. GtkWindow is by definition top-level window in
> host windowing system, and can't be packed into other container.
> Besides, I don't really get your idea, what would that be useful for?
>
> Cheers,
> Maciej
>
>  
I want to have a mainwindow, where the content may vary. The content can 
be composed with glade. Within glade only normal windows can be 
constructed. I could of coarse rip the content of the normal window and 
pack this into the main window, but when the mainwindow needs another 
content we need to do some booking. This could be avoided when we could 
pack the entire window into the mainwindow.

A similar approach can be fould in the VCL of borland, where a panel is 
the parent of a window and hence it's packed into the window where the 
panel resides. This is a simple method, which could also be usefull for 
Gtk.

When this approach is used and put into a library, the could be used as 
a seperate functional unit by a program but also be used as a combined 
functional unit. Or even a MDI kind of application (like Todd Fisher 
suggested) if one wishes to.

But I don't want to hack to deeply, because porting issues can be a big 
problem then.

Lourens