Re: destroy a widget while keeping the window with Glade

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Frank Cox <theatre melvilletheatre com> wrote:
> I've just started playing with Glade and once again I'm wondering if I'm using
> the wrong approach to get stuff done, since I can't find anything that tells me
> how to do this.
>
> So far, I've been creating a main window for the program and simply creating and
> destroying boxes and widgets within that window as different menu options are
> selected.
>
> Here is a simple example.
>
> I have a window with a box in it, which in turn contains a button.
>
> Now I want to be able to click on that button and destroy the box without
> destroying the window, then create a new box and a new button within the
> existing window.
>
> I can do this easily enough by writing the code to do the layout myself, but I
> don't see a way to do a Glade layout that can accomplish this.

Just right click on any widget in Glade's palette and chose "Add as toplevel"

Glade/GtkBuilder do not restrict you to using toplevel GtkWindows in your xml.

Cheers,
         -Tristan