Re: Iterating through children

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Dimitar Haralanov wrote:
>         Well, looking at your function I realized that it might be more helpful
> then I thought. Here is what I am trying to accomplish:
>         I am not sure whether you are familiar with the lookup_widget ()
> function that glade/glade-2 generates as part of its gtk code but what
> it does is allow the programmer to get a pointer to any widget just by
> passing an arbitrary widget and the name of the variable that is used to
> point to the sought widget.
>         I am trying to duplicate this functionality! The reason why I am not
> using lookup_widget is that it requires that the top level widget is a
> window. Unfortunately, I don't have that pointer since the container
> that I am working with gets passed to me.
>         If would appreciate it very much if anyone can help with this.
> Otherwise, I will have to resort to making all the needed widgets global
> :(

After trying to shape my app around the generated glade C, i found it
was much better to just forget the glade C and use glade-xml, so you
can maintain pointers to your widgets however you want. You'll be
happier;)