Re: Using a gtknotebook in a main window to display a child window

[François Rappaz <francois rappaz unifr ch>]

I got someting working : reparenting the first child (vbox1)of the
"subform" window I want to have in the GtkNotebook, and destroying the
"subform" window next, did the trick. sfcoll is a GtkAlignment in a
GtkFrame in a notebook page.

Someting like  

my  $subform= $gladeObject->get_widget('subform');
   my $vbox = $gladeObject->get_widget('vbox1');
   my $sfctrl = $mainForm->get_widget('sfcoll');
   Gtk2::Widget::reparent($vbox, $sfctrl);
    $subform->destroy();

FranÃois

Le samedi 02 avril 2011 Ã 01:06 +0200, Kevin Ryde a Ãcrit :
> FranÃois Rappaz <francois rappaz unifr ch> writes:
> > Is it possible to include the child window on the fly ?
>
> Probably not easily.  A given widget can only appear in one place at the
> one time, though you can reparent to shift it about.
>
> > Is this possible without having to copy all the fields and code from the
> > child window in the page ? 
>
> If you made the child display stuff into a widget then you could create
> two of them and re-use the code.  I've tinkered with broadcasting
> notifications of database updates to let display widgets update
> themselves, but an explicit update/refresh/etc from whatever master
> "on_change" might be enough to start.
>
> As a bit of gratuitous self promotion, I made a
> Glib::Ex::ConnectProperties (on cpan) for keeping given properties of
> two widgets in sync -- any change on one is propagated to the other.  If
> your child stuff has control checkboxes or whatever then that might be
> one way to keep them showing the same thing.