Re: Text Fields

[Ryan Wahle <wahle ryu innercite com>]

Yes. This helps very much.

Thank you.

On 14 Jan 1999, Thomas Mailund Jensen wrote:

> >>>>> "R" == Ryan Wahle <wahle@ryu.innercite.com> writes:
> 
>  R> I was wondering if there was a way to get the contents of a text
>  R> field, when all you use is GtkWidget *text for about 5 text
>  R> fields.
> 
>  R> Or should I just use:
> 
>  R> GtkWidget *text1;
>  R> GtkWidget *text2;
>  R> GtkWidget *text3;
> 
>  R> and so on...
> 
> As I understand your question you want to do something like
> 
> --<code>-----------------------------------------------------
> 
> GtkWidget *text;
> 
> text = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> text = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> text = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> /* and here you want to extract text from all the text fields */
> 
> --</code>----------------------------------------------------
> 
> instead of
> 
> --<code>-----------------------------------------------------
> 
> GtkWidget *text1;
> GtkWidget *text2;
> GtkWidget *text3;
> 
> text1 = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> text2 = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> text3 = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> /* here you extract the text from text1, text2, and text3. */
> 
> --</code>----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Is that a correct interpretation of your question?
> 
> In that case I suppose you could use gtk_object_set_data to store a
> reference to your text widgets, in a container widget.  That would be
> something like
> 
> --<code>-----------------------------------------------------
> 
> GtkWidget *window, *text;
> 
> text = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> gtk_object_set_data (GTK_OBJECT (window), "text1", text);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> text = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> gtk_object_set_data (GTK_OBJECT (window), "text2", text);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> text = gtk_text_new (NULL,NULL);
> gtk_object_set_data (GTK_OBJECT (window), "text3", text);
> 
> /* stuff */
> 
> /* here you can get to your text widgets with 
> 
> 	text = gtk_object_get_data (GTK_OBJECT (window), "text[123]");
> 
>  */
> 
> --</code>----------------------------------------------------
> 
> It is perhaps not as usefull in this example where everything is in
> the same function, but if you want to get to the text from other
> functions you just need to save a pointer to window in stead of
> keeping track of all the text[123] pointers.
> 
> 	/mailund
> 
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