Re: How to find a widget contained witin a widget

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

    Alan> How can I access a widget contained in a window with only the window
    Alan> pointer available.  It looks like gtk_container_children() might do
    Alan> this, but the documentation only gives a funtion prototype.  What
    Alan> exactly is the Glist returned by gtk_container_children(), and how
    Alan> would I use it to tell the difference between a gtkbutton and a
    Alan> gtkcombo?

Something like:

for (l = gtk_container_children(thing); l != NULL; l = l->next) {
  if (GTK_IS_BUTTON(GTK_OBJECT(l->data)))
    g_print("BUTTON\n");
  else if (GTK_IS_COMBO(GTK_OBJECT(l->data)))
    g_print("COMBO\n");
}

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