Re: [glade--]How to get hold of the widgets

[Christof Petig <christof petig-baender de>]

Peter F Bradshaw wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I'm new to Gtk, glade and glademm so I'm sure this question has been
> answered many times before.
>
> My question is how do I get hold of the widgets that glademm creates.
>
> For instance, if I have a top level window called MainWindow then
> glademm creates a base class called MainWindow_glade. In the ctor of
> this class the widgets are created and pointed to by local pointers. How
> do I access these widgets in MainWindow (or else where).

most frequently asked question: mark its visibility as protected (or 
even public) instead of private.

See the glademm user's guide. Any idea on where to put this information 
more prominently? (perhaps a comment at the start of the 
window1_glade.cc file?)

   Christof