Re: Container

["Rafeeq C E" <rafeeqce myiris com>]

Thank you for the help.
Can i get a look at some example programs implementing this.

Regards
Rafeeq
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rob" <mailingLists pangolin org uk>
To: <rafeeqce myiris com>
Cc: "gtk list" <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 6:34 AM
Subject: Re: Container


> On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 21:27, Rafeeq C E wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have 5 text boxes and a combo box on a GTK
> > window. The "changed" event handler for combo
> > box searches for the selected value in database
> > and displays related infotmation in the text
> > boxes. I am stuck at this point. The text boxes
> > cannot be made global. If they were global, I
> > could have used them in the event handler
> > function. Is there any way by which I can 
> > access the components through their container?
> >  
> >  Regards
> >  Rafeeq C E
> >  
>
> There are lots of ways to do this.
> You could get at them through the container use 
> gtk_container_children(myContainer)  
> this gives you a glist of the children. Doing this is a pain as if your
> ui changes it'll break.
>
> If your using glade the simpleist way is just to use 
> lookup_widget(myApp, myWidgetsName)
> if your not using glade then either:
>
> use the  userData bit of the callback (if you want to to pass more than
> 1 argument just stick them in a struct)
>
> stick a pointer to them in the instance struct
>
> attach them to a convinent object with gtk_object_set_data
>
> i'd stick a pointer in the instance struct but it probably dosn't matter
> much.
>
> hope this helps
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