Re: [gtk-list] how to get a child of a GtkContainer

[Leonardo Zide <leonardo centroin com br>]

Matthias Reis wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have in my gtk+ application a menuitem, which has a GtkLabel as it's
> child. How can I get the text of this label? The problem is that the label
> is created by gtk_menuitem_new_with_label (), which doesn't return a
> pointer to the label, of course. So how can I get the label?

  Use GTK_BIN (menuitem)->child, the same can be used to other
gtk_***_new_with_label () calls.

Leonardo

PS: This question should be in the FAQ, it comes up almost every week.