Hello, I'm afraid this is not possible to do it this way; you will have to create some kind of wrapper widget. I would go on with GtkStack, and for the tabs themselves you may take a look into GtkStackSwitcher's source code.
Best, Gergely On 9 Feb 2015 14:43, "Leo Ufimtsev" <lufim...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm an SWT developer. We build SWT on top of GTK. > > In swt, some developers like to create a GtkNotebook (TabFolder) with many > tabs but all pointing to the same control. (sigh, odd, I know...) > > The control is a viewer, and changing tabs changes the content of the > viewer. > > However, in gtk I haven't been able to make this work. If I add the same > child twice, it gives me warnings and errors: > gtk_notebook_append_page (GTK_NOTEBOOK (notebook), child1, label1); > gtk_notebook_append_page (GTK_NOTEBOOK (notebook), child1, label2); > > Warning: > (gtk3_testing:17322): Gtk-WARNING **: Can't set a parent on widget which > has a parent > > > Theoretically speaking, can a GtkNotebook have tabs that all point to the > same control? (and we just listen to tab-changing events)? Or is this > impossible by principle of widget-hierarchy? > > Thank you > > Leo Ufimtsev | Intern Software Engineer @ Eclipse Team > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
