Re: Bring a widget to the foreground

[jcupitt gmail com]

Hi John,

On 2 January 2011 13:17, John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk> wrote:
> As an example, let's say I wanted a button whose label needed to be at the top of the button, rather than 
> in the centre.  I use either a separate label or a graphical image to achieve this.

You can just set the alignment on the label to get them to display at
the top of the button.

> Each time the button gets pressed I need to make sure that it doesn't obscure the other widget.  So having 
> done whatever gets done in response to the button press, I need to bring the other widget to the foreground 
> again.  Does GTK+ have a method available for achieving this?

GTK does not officially support overlapping widgets. However, you can
sort-of do it by putting groups of widgets into eventboxes and putting
those boxes into a layout. To move to the front, ref the box, remove
it from the layout, add again, and unref. It would probably work with
other containers too. I hope I've understood what you want.

John