Re: clearing a canvas

["J.W. Bizzaro" <bizzaro geoserve net>]

Geoff Reedy wrote:
> 
> What's the proper way to clear a canvas? I've tried iterating over the root
> group's child list and destroying them, and several variation on that theme,
> but none of the things that I have tried worked right.  Iterating and hiding
> makes them go away, but adding a destroy keeps the items from going away.

You're destroying them as Gtk objects, and they won't go away?  What do you
mean by 'go away'?  What happens?

Jeff