Re: Sensitive child in insensitive parent?

[Christoph Schmeding <cschmeding altair com>]

I have read some doc, but I don't think I can use GtkAction and 
GtkActionGroup for my purpose.
I am afraid I have to loop myself  :-(

Thanks a lot anyhow,
Christoph

Larry Reaves wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:05 +0200, Christoph Schmeding wrote:
>   
> > 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?
> >     
>
> If you set a container as insensitive, all it's children will be
> insensitive, so you only have to go to another level if the container
> contains an item you want to set sensitive.  Unfortunately, there is not
> another way that I know of.  You might checkout
> gtkaction/gtkactiongroup.  I've never messed with it, so I'm not sure
> what it can do, but there is gtk_action_group_set_sensitive()
>
> -Larry
> <larry yrral net>
>
>