reflow-container in area-container<%>

When a container window is not shown, changes to the container's set of children do not necessarily trigger the immediate re-computation of the container's size and its children's sizes and positions. Instead, the recalculation is delayed until the container is shown, which avoids redundant computations between a series of changes. The reflow-container method forces the immediate recalculation of the container's and its children's sizes and locations.

Immediately after calling the reflow-container method, get-size, get-client-size, get-width, get-height, get-x, and get-y report the manager-applied sizes and locations for the container and its children, even when the container is hidden. A container implementation can call functions such as get-size at any time to obtain the current state of a window (because the functions do not trigger geometry management).

See also container-flow-modified.