Re: Testing widget visibility?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 10:30 -0700, Ian Puleston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a simple way to test if a widget really is visible (i.e. the user
> can actually see it). GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE returns true if the widget has been
> set to show, but that does not mean that it is actually visible - if it is
> in a box that is currently hidden then the widget is not visible on the
> window.
> 
> One option should be to recursively use gtk_widget_get_parent to check the
> visibility of each parent up to the top window, but is there a simpler way
> to do it?

_MAPPED (or whatever gtkmm uses for Gtk::Widget::is_mapped())

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