How do you hide a Gtk# window?

Question

How can I hide a Gtk# window that I created in MonoDevelop? I tried the following but it doesn't work:

public MainWindow (): base (Gtk.WindowType.Toplevel)
{
    Build();
    this.HideAll();
    this.Visible = false;
}

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Solution Calling HideAll() outside the constructor, as tomlog suggested, works. If you want to do some work before showing the window you can

• Add an event handler to Window.Shown before calling Build()
• Do the work before calling Build() (probably the better alternative in most cases)

Answer 1

I don't think you can call HideAll in the constructor, because the form is not fully initialized and therefore not visible yet.