Re: GtkOrientable and GtkBox

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 19:56 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:

> what's so painful about:
> 
> GList *list = gtk_container_get_children (GTK_CONTAINER (box));
> gint   pos  = g_list_length (list) - 1;
> 
> for (; list; list = list->next, pos--)
>   gtk_box_reorder_child (GTK_BOX (box), list->data, pos);
> 
> I haven't tried this, but unless I am mistaken this should reverse the
> order of children in a box. Seems easy enough to do and avoids the need
> to introduce yet another special case in the GtkBox code. Perhaps if
> this solution is not obvious enough, this should be turned into a
> utility function gtk_box_reverse_children_order() ?

For the GtkBox case, this assumes that you're not going to be making any
calls to pack_start() or pack_end() in the future. Otherwise you end up
with the button ordering that is not independent of your orientation.

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Davyd Madeley

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