Re: Locating child-widgets (by name) without Glade-code [EOT by my side]

["Waldek Maleska" <progss interia pl>]

> From: "Gus Koppel" <gtk spamkiller bytechase cx>

> Please have a look at
> http://www.spamkiller.bytechase.cx/democode/widget_find_by_name.c.  I
> doubt a hashtable-based maintain-and-locate solution could be smaller
> than my single 40-lines function. It actually achieves what I want,
> without any extra resources or protocols to track / abide.

I'll take a look at your solution, it might be helpful some way :)
But if it is based on linear search - and that's what you mentioned
previously - it's definitely a reason to _not_ use it, algorithm
complexity is too high.
a) Linear search is O(n) -  IMO it's definitely not enough.
b) Using a hash table should be O(n/k) or better (even O(1)).
c) Using simple local and global variables/pointers is O(1).

I'd rather use c).

Of course it's just my opinion and I'm no "mastahaka" ;-)
With a small number of widgets it can be acceptable.

I don't know much about widget's names, except for the docs:
"Widgets can be named, which allows you to refer to them from a 
gtkrc file. You can apply a style to widgets with a particular name 
in the gtkrc file. See the documentation for gtkrc files (on the same 
page as the docs for GtkRcStyle)."

.../gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-set-name

Glade uses them anyway. However if _Owen_ says something about
them, I believe he knows what he says :-)

Best regards,
Waldek Maleska