widget name (was Re: Remove spaces in dialog window)

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Aug 4, 2005, at 6:37 AM, Beast wrote:

> muppet wrote:
>
> >    my $self = $class->SUPER::new(...);
> >    bless $self, $class;
>
> Sorry, newbie question:
>
> How do I set text $name from other subroutine?
>
> ----
> new {
>   my $self = $class->SUPER::new(...);
>   bless $self, $class;
>
>   my $name = Gtk2::Entry->new();
>   $self->set_name("Test");
> }
>
> sub set_name {
>   my ($self, $fullname) = shift;
>   # this doesn't work
>   #$self->get_widget('name')->set_text($fullname);
>
> }

Need more context, but i'll try to guess.

In general you just need to keep a handle to a widget if you're going  
to use it elsewhere.  Gtk2::GladeXML allows you to scrape the widget  
tree for widgets by name with get_widget().

If you're building a window by hand and need to mess with the child  
widgets, it's easy enough just to store a reference to the  
interesting ones in some place you can get to later.  E.g.:

  sub new {
     ...
     $self->{name_entry} = Gtk2::Entry->new;
     ...
  }

  sub set_name {
     my ($self, $new_name) = @_;
     $self->{name_entry}->set_text ($new_name);
  }



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