cloning widget tree for identical layout notebook tabs

[Fred Mueller <fmue pab-opto de>]

Dear folks,

I'd like to create notebook tabs with identical layout and different
vaiable name space.

Think of each tab configuring variables of a struct and the notebook
corresponding to an array of structures. The number of tabs is determined
at runtime, while the layout is done using XML glade-2.

question:
How do I efficiently create more tab entries with the same layout as the
first but different name&variable spaces ?

One solution seems to be
	glade_xml_new_from_buffer
with root and domain options, but I wonder whether the copy-paste
process might be done elegantly within Gtk itself: like copying a widget
sub-tree and pasting it at a different node.

Doing the tab layout purely with the C-api in Gtk would limit its
complexity a bit.

Any insight much appreciated (checked FAQ and archives, maybe I
overlooked the obvious)

TIA1e6
Fred

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Fred Müller, fmue pab-opto de, www.pab-opto.de