I've run into a problem multiple times. Essentially I have a double_window with derived tab and in the tab there are groups with widgets.

The order of definition of groups decides the display order of tabs.

So I need to have a particular order there.

As a result I have issues with static defined widgets defined after they are first called.

For instance a widget in Tab 1 may need to initialize or obtain values from a widget in Tab 2.

Is there a way to specify the order of static widget declaration? Or a way to tell the compiler to parse all the statics first and then the code?

This can be avoided with globals - but I would rather not extern all my widgets.