Re: opening a child window

[Ian Martin <martin_id vodafone co nz>]

On 24/04/13 05:40, Andy Gilman wrote:
> I seem to be a perpetual newbie and I suspect that there is a pretty
> straightforward answer to my question, but so far it has eluded me.  I
> have written a small program for my own use that begins with an opening
> window and then opens child windows as needed (e.g. to add data, or to
> show the data sorted in a particular way).  Using Gtk::Main::run, this
> is no problem.  I simply create an instance of the window I want to
> call and then "run" it.  But I see that Gtk::Main has been deprecated
> and Gtk::Application is preferred.  I can call the initial window with
> this, but cannot figure out how to call the child windows.  Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Andy
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Hi Andy,
Subclass Gtk::Window.  Gtk::Dialog is designed as a subclass of 
Gtk::Window that may fulfil some of the functions you want better and 
may be worth looking into.
If goign with a Gtk::Window, remember that if you use new(), your window 
will only have a lifetime as long as the calling function, so you need 
to be careful how you keep it alive.  Having it as a child object of 
another class is a useful way of keeping it alive.

Hope that helps,

Ian.