Re: GTK_ENTRY text retrieval

[Ken Sodemann <stuffle mac com>]

On Nov 30, 2004, at 6:33 AM, Tim Müller wrote:
> You could also allocate yourself a custom-made struct containing all 
> the
> widgets you need access to, and pass that struct around instead. 
> Something
> like
>
>     gtk_widget_show (foo->treeview);

I used to do that.  I started using the object data after I looked at 
some of the glade generated code, liked the idea, and adopted it in my 
own code.  It is much cleaner (in my experience).

> is usually more readable than code littered with g_object_get_data() 
> like
>
>     gtk_widget_show (GTK_WIDGET (g_object_get_data (G_OBJECT (win),
> "treeview")));

Actually, with a few macros and functions, most of which I lifted from 
the glade generated code and modified for my own purposes, the 
resulting code is nowhere near that ugly.  I generally lookup the 
widgets I am going to need at the start of the handler, store pointers 
in meaningful variables, and use the meaningful variable names in the 
actual gtk_widget_foo() function calls.

> > You might want to generate some code from glade and take a look...
>
> I think in general it makes more sense to look at code that was 
> written by
> experienced programmers rather than to look at generated code ...

In general, but there is certainly nothing wrong with looking at the 
glade generated code, either, especially since it does contain some 
rather good ideas (IMHO).

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