Re: lookup_widget???

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

>     gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(label),output);
sets the text to be displayed in a label.


>     GtkWidget * label = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "label1");
If I wrote a function like this. it would find the label named "label1"
under the heirarchy of `button' and return a pointer to it.

Somehow I doubt that `lookup_widget' is a function exported 
by the gtk+ libraries.



Cheers,
                -Tristan

> Uni wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling to see the difference between:
>
>     gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(label),output);
>
> and
>
>     GtkWidget * label = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "label1");
>
> Why is the second one using lookup_widget? Also what exactly does
> lookup_widget do that the first one doesn't?
>
> Thanks
>
> Uni