Re: Ataching data to a widget

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Sven LUTHER <luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> 
> > Better would be to use gtk_object_set_user_data and
> > gtk_object_get_user_data, isn't it ?
> 
> Why is that?  I've been using gtk_object_get_data  and
> gtk_object_set_data, which are nice because you can set multiple
> pieces of data with string names.  Am I doing something wrong?

No.

gtk_object_set_user_data() is basically just there for
compatibility with (very) old versions of GTK+ that
only allowed setting a single piece of data per-widget.

Using gtk_object_set_data() is the preferred method.

Regards,
                                        Owen