Re: Removing a widget



Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Harold Campbell wrote:
> > Why not gtk_widget_reparent? Or, more precisely, when is it safe to use
> > gtk_widget_reparent?
> >
>
> gtk_widget_reparent() should simply do the ref/remove/add/unref thing, but
> right now it contains a weird optimization that doesn't work with some
> widgets. So it really shouldn't be used in Gtk 1.2, it should be safe in
> 1.4 (in 1.4 it will just do the ref/remove/add/unref). It does work 90% of
> the time now, just with some widgets it gets confused. If it seems to work
> in your case then it probably does.
>
> Actually I'm not sure why it isn't changed in the 1.2 series, but I know
> Owen's thought about it so there is probably a good reason.
>
> Havoc
>
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OK, I'll try that in a couple of minutes.

Sean Middleditch



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