Re: closing a spawned window

[Ronald Roth <rroth uiuc edu>]

is this something that I must do for -every- combination of required
data for all my callbacks?  Or should I just create one enourmous
structure and set only the needed elements in that?

Seems inefficient.

Also, some of this data isn't stuff that I know how to access
-anywhere-.  I used glade to create the interface, so, for example, if I
want to use a button to save what was typed into a text field, how do I
retrieve the text to be saved?  I can't access the textbox widget
itself, because that was created by glade in the "interface.c" file and
I have no way to store a pointer to that widget.  If I edit interface.c,
glade will just overwrite my changes when I edit the interface.

Is there a way to retrieve pointers to a specific widget from within the
callback?

Thanks,
-Ron

On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 11:03, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Ron,
>
> I would create a structure (typedef) with all required data and pass a
> pointer to a variable of that type.
>
> Then, in your callback function, just retreive the data by casting
> gpointer* to the proper typedef.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier.
>
> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 18:20, Ronald Roth wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an application which spawns another toplevel window.  I would
> > like the user to be able to close this window by clicking on
> > File->Close.  I currently have the callback for that menuitem call
> > another function which does some cleanup (Saving date, etc), and then I
> > wish to close the window.  However, I don't know what to pass to
> > gtk_widget_destroy().  The only data that's available in my callback is
> > the GtkMenuItem that was clicked.  How do I get the widget that I need
> > to delete the toplevel window?
> >
> > I often have problems like these.  I have a button whose callback needs
> > data about some other widget elsewhere in my program.  In general, how
> > do I pass this data to my callback or retrieve the data from within the
> > callback?
> >
> > Thanks!  I hope my question was clear.  Please forgive me if the answer
> > is obvious.
> >
> > Ron
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