Re: opening a child window

[Andy Gilman <amgilman myfairpoint net>]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:31:51 +0200
Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 07:21 +1200, Ian Martin wrote:
> > 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
>
> No, if you new() a window then it will live until you delete it.
>
> I think it's some_window.show() that Andy needs.

Thank you for these quick and helpful responses.  I am still a bit
perplexed, and in the interests of brevity and clarity I may have
omitted relevant info.  If I put the "some_window.show() function in
the Main file (where the primary window is called through "return
app->run(primary_window), it works fine.  But I was hoping to call the
"some_window" from a button click in the primary_window.  I have set up
such a button and it is functional.  I do not get any error messages,
but I also do not get any child window.  Perhaps the pattern I am
attempting is not desirable programming? 

I have considered adapting a Dialogue for my purposes, but it seemed
that a basic Window was more straightforward.

Thanks again.

Andy
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