Re: Walking through the widgets of an application?

[Laszlo Kovacs <laszlo kovacs Sun COM>]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Laszlo Kovacs <laszlo kovacs Sun COM> writes:
>
>
> > I am developing a performance benchmark for Gnome applications. One
> > problem that has to be solved is identification of all widgets by
> > their names in the scripts that drive the benchmark (simulate input,
> > measure times etc). E.g. if I want to write a benchmark script that
> > checks for the time certain widgets need to be displayed, I need to
> > refer those widgets somehow in the script and I need a name for that.
> >
> > A benchmarking application for Motif had a little app that walked down
> > the widget tree of the benchmarked application, created a unique name
> > from the widget path and wrote all the names in a file. This was easy
> > to implement as in Motif/Xt there is only one root widget in an
> > application, every widget has a parent and popups (dialogs, menus) are
> > referred by their parents as well. In turn using a widget name
> > generated this way it was easy to find the corresponding widget
> > pointer.
>
>
> you can get a list of all toplevel windows using
> gtk_window_list_toplevels(). It should be easy to traverse the widget
> hierachy for each window using gtk_container_get_children(). But I
> think I already pointed you to these functions when you asked on #gtk+.

Thanks. Would this work for dialogs/menus as well? Can I get to all the 
widgets like this?

Laszlo