showall overrides controls marked with visible == false

[BioTurboNick]

showall is the method used to render the controls added to a Gtk window.

However, it also overrides any controls that had been set to visible == false. This is an issue when trying to design a GUI with some default-invisible controls in Glade, as they have to be turned off again after showall.

Now, this behavior is possibly obvious from the name showall, but perhaps a different method is needed for the initial display call that doesn't have that behavior?

[tknopp]

• is this used in Gtk.jl itself or just in the tests?
• could you try just calling show on a window and look what happens?
• look what typical Gtk examples do?

[BioTurboNick]

It's used all over the documentation. E.g. https://juliagraphics.github.io/Gtk.jl/latest/manual/gettingStarted/

When I just call show on the window, some elements aren't rendered.

[jwahlstrand]

There is a "no_show_all" property that lets a widget ignore "showall" calls to its parents. It also can be set within Glade.

[tknopp]

That it is used in the documentation does not mean a lot because showall is a valid Gtk function. My question was rather, if we abuse it somewhere in Gtk.jl internally where it should not be used and surprisingly makes widgets visible.

[BioTurboNick]

Yeah, I guess it's just a part of Gtk's design I didn't appreciate. I'll find a spot in the documentation to mention this.

[BioTurboNick]

But to answer your question, no it's not an issue inside Gtk.jl. It's only used once and in that location it's appropriate.