Re: Finding which window hierarchy I'm in

[James Curbo <james teyandei net>]

muppet wrote:
> On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 08:17 PM, Dan Lyke wrote:
>
> > What's the better solution?
>
>
> for very subjective values of "better"....
>
> what i usually do is use a structure (or indeed an object) for each 
> high-level object like a window; i store a pointer to each interesting 
> widget in that toplevel object, and pass that object as user data to all 
> the signals for those interesting widgets.  with this scheme you always 
> get the right thing and there's no problems like what you're having.
>
> i have no idea how to do that with glade.  perhaps 
> $gladexml->signal_connect_data ?

In the Glade editor, on the page where you edit signals, there is an 
entry for the user_data argument. I think you just give it the variable 
name and make sure you declare it and whatnot in C.. probably the same 
in perl, I've never used it though.

> --
> muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>

James