[pygtk] re-using children widget in other parent

[Greg Ewing]

Pascal Duchatelle wrote:
> I am trying to re-use children widgets of which I destroyed (maybe not
> the right choice) the parent in another parent.

You may need to detach the child widgets before destroying
the parent, if you want to re-use the children. Otherwise
they get recursively destroyed along with the parent.

> What is the use of keeping this reference since the parent cannot
> "live" again (I suppose)

This being Python, there's nothing to stop you from keeping
a reference to a widget that has been destroyed. But from
Gtk's perspective, a destroyed widget is no longer usable.
It is an ex-widget. :-)

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Greg