Re: How to stack widgets or GtkFixed doesn't seem to work well for stacking

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 06:58 -0500, Sean Kelley wrote:
> It appers that GtkFixed is not really designed for stacking widgets as
> it does not have
> a concept of a z-axis. What gets drawn on top is purely a matter of what
> child comes last when drawing, and a similar story is with input.
> 
> If you need to stack things, how is this best accomplished?
> 
> Imagine you are working with an embedded device with a series of
> widgets that act as page so to speak. Here's the sequence of events:
> 
> Add a widget (call it menu page) to the fixed widget
> Add a confirmation page to the fixed widget
> Remove the menu page from the fixed widget
> Add the settings page to the fixed widget
> Remove the confirmation page from the fixed widget
> Add the confirmation page to the fixed widget
> 
> (note that the last two operations were done in an attempt to get
> confirmation page in the foreground)
> 
> After this sequence of events I would expect to see the settings page in the
> background with the confirmation page in the foreground.

This does seem to be an attempt to simulate stacked GtkWindows. Is there
a reason that you can't just show a dialog?

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