Design Question

[Jeff Shipman <shippy cs nmt edu>]

I'm building a graphical ftp client with GTK and I
am calling 4 different functions in my main() to
return a GtkItemFactory* and the rest return GtkWidget*'s

My question is, what if I have a button that's inside
of a box which is return back to main? Do I have a way
of accessing that button again via the box in main? Or,
should I declare things that I will need to modify
at runtime as global variables?
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| Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy@cs.nmt.edu |
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| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology       |
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