[Glade-users] How to simultaneously minimize/iconify windows

[roms lievin net (Romain Liévin)]

Hi Scot,

> Have not done this exactly.  But you will need to keep track of all your
> windows and in the action where you select to minimize the window your
> callback function would run down the list of windows you have open and
> iconify each window or hide each window.  When you expand the window you
> would run the list again and unhide or show each window again.

This is what I done. In the 'state-event' event of my main window, I
filter interesting events (iconify). On this event, I call a function
which calls 'gtk_window_iconify' for all of my others windows.

Problem: iconifying is cascaded (one window at a time) thus this is quite
slow.

And, Glade does that without any extra code. How ?

> I sort of did this in one program where I canceled an action and needed
> to destroy a couple of windows that had been opened to perform that
> action.  In the cancel callback function I checked for each window and
> issued the destroy call for each if it was open.

It seems that iconifying is not as instantaneous as canceling.

Thanks, Romain.
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