Re: Getting the name of a button.

[Kenneth Swanson <kswanson watson wustl edu>]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:43, muppet wrote:
> Eric Depagne said:
> > I would like to know if it is possible to get the label of the button on which
> > one clicks and assign it to let say $Name.
>
> a button is a container, and when you create a button with new_with_label
> (which is what Gtk::Button->new (string) does for you), the container has one
> child, a GtkLabel.
>
> try this (danger, will robinson, untested code!):
>
>    # fetch the button's contained child
>    $label = $button->get_child; # may be ->child, i don't remember for sure
>    die "child isn't what i thought it was"
>         unless 'Gtk::Label' eq ref $button;
>    $label->set_text ($new_text);

Unless I'm mistaken, you want this:

   # fetch the button's contained child
   $label = $button->child;
   die "child isn't what i thought it was"
        unless 'Gtk::Label' eq ref $label;
   $label->set_text ($new_text);

(The bin method is ->child, and you want to make sure $label is a label)

-Ken
(Just another guy who hasn't/can't upgrade to Gtk2)