Re: Sensitive child in insensitive parent?

[Christoph Schmeding <cschmeding altair com>]

Hello,

Thanks for the answer.
Indeed this is a solution.

But imagine an application with lots of containers packed into one 
another, and I want to have everything insensitive except one or two 
little parts of it.
This means that I recursively have to loop through all levels of 
containers and set them one by one to sensitive or insensitive respectively.
I was hoping Gtk could somehow do this for me! Isn't there a way?

Thanks,
Christoph

Larry Reaves wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:39 +0200, Christoph Schmeding wrote:
>   
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a "child" widget, which is packed together with a lot of 
> > "siblings" into a "parent" container.
> > Now I want to set the parent with all the siblings insensitive, but 
> > keeping my "special child" sensitive.
> >
> > Calling
> > gtk_widget_set_sensitive(parent, FALSE);
> > gtk_widget_set_sensitive(child, TRUE);
> > does not work. I have searched a bit, and it seems even wanted behaviour 
> > that a child can only be sensitive if all its parents are sensitive, too.
> >
> > Of course I can myself set each sibling insensitive, instead of the 
> > parent. But this is quite annoying, especially if I want to do this in a 
> > multi-level packaging, i.e. if the parent should be insensitive and only 
> > a child of a child (of a child ...) should be sensitive.
> >
> > Does anybody know how to do this easily?
> >     
> look at gtk_container_get_children() and loop over the list
>
> -Larry
> <larry yrral net>
>