Re[2]: How do i find out if a widget is shown or hidden?

[Lothar Scholz <llothar web de>]

Hello Chris,

Monday, May 10, 2010, 11:03:31 AM, you wrote:

CV> On Mon, 10 May 2010 04:31:59 +0200
CV> Lothar Scholz <llothar web de> wrote:
>> There seems to be no "gtk_widget_is_shown" or "gtk_widget_is_hidden"
>> function. How do i find out if it is already shown?
CV>  
CV> That depends on what you mean.  You can find out if it has been shown or
CV> hidden programmatically by calling GTK_WIDGET_VISIBLE() (or from gtk+-2.18,
CV> gtk_widget_get_visible()). However, that will not tell you whether the
CV> widget is obscured or iconified (that is, whether it is actually
CV> visible on the desktop). You will need to track notify events and state
CV> events to do that.

Thanks, i thought on X11 it just means this "visible".

So if it is fully covered by other windows or moved out of the range
of the root window.

I will check it.

And what does "mapped" mean?


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