Re: easy newbie question (I think)

[Brian Clark <bc viz tamu edu>]

Yep.  That seems to be the general consensus, and that's what I'll do.
I'm just surprised there's not a built in way.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in.

bc



On Sep 12, 2004, at 9:10 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Brian Clark wrote:
>
> > How do I access a particular item in a gtk window? If I have a 
> > window, which contains a box, which contains a button, how do I 
> > access the button, when all I have is a pointer to the window?
>
> In a word, via a wrapper struct.  Most gtk functions let you pass just 
> one piece of "user data", but there's nothing to stop you making that 
> piece a pointer to a struct, which can have as many members as you 
> like, including, as in your case, pointers to specific widgets whose 
> sensitivity you want to change depending on what happens elsewhere.
>
> Allin Cottrell