Re: getting a GtkWidget*

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

bowman wrote:
> 
> I haven't been able to hit on quite the right thing in the FAQ or docs. I've
> been working with glade, which doesn't expose the widgets used in the
> generated interface.c file. If I have connected a callback to a button
> click, for instance, and I would like to get the text from an GetEntry
> widget, is there a graceful way to get a pointer to the entry?
> 
> It looks like my options are passing a GList of the widget pointers I'll be
> interested in during the callback, or getting the ancestor container of the
> button and iterating through the children.
> 
> Is there anything analogous to XtNameToWidget?

Glade outputs a lookup_widget() function in support.c that you can use.

See the FAQ on http://glade.gnome.org

Damon