Re: Detach a widget from container

[Vladimir Tsichevski <wowa jet msk su>]

>
>Hi!
>
>  I have the following problem. I have a container widget (a vbox) and a
>widget packed into this container:
>
>    gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(container),vbox);
>
>  I need to detach the vbox from the container without destroying it. I
>tried first the gtk_container_remove(), but it destroys the child
>widget. Do you know, how could I do it? I need the widget later for
>inserting into another container, and it would be terrible waste of time,
>if I'd have to destroy it and then later create it again...
>

Take a look at "reparent" test's code in gtk/testgtk.c in gtk+
distribution. IMHO this example does exactly what you want.


Vladimir V. Tsichevski
senior expert

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