Re: making a GtkNotebook tab insensitive - omission?

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I have just realized (please correct me if I am wrong) that
> GtkNotebook does not allow for making a tab insensitive (i.e. 'greyed
> out' and temporarily non-selectable), unless one manually alters the
> tab label, and consumes the switch_page signal as appropriate.
> 
> Seems like something one would expect API for.
> 
> ? any use in my submitting a patch for this ?  It would constitute an
> API addition, rather than a change to existing interfaces... 

what would happen if the current page is to be insensitivized (is that
a valid word in english? ;), would the notebook automatically switch
to another page (if present) or also make the page contents insensitive?

> 
> -Bill
> --
> 

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ciaoTJ