Re: [glade--]Newbie question : how to access a contained object ?

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Pierre Bacquet schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to learn the basics of GTKmm and Glade.
>
> I have designed a very simple Window with 1 button and a text
> field (Gtk::Entry). I have setup call-backs for the button.
>
> I would like to display some text in the text field
> when I click on the button. The problem I have is that Glademm
> generates the pointer to the text field as a local variable of the
> constructor of my window; hence, I don't know how to get a pointer
> of the text area when my call-back is triggered.
>
> If I use Glade C code generator, I can manage to get a pointer on
> the text area using lookup_widget() passing it the name of my text
> area; but, with the C++ code generator, I am stuck.

mark the text widget's visibility as protected or higher. That's all. No 
voodoo like lookup_widget() required.

   Christof