Re: Missing get_xid method

[Thierry Vignaud <thierry vignaud gmail com>]

On 30 December 2013 15:54, Christian Jaeger <chrjae gmail com> wrote:
> I'd like to run a mplayer subprocess with the mplayer -wid option and pass
> it the x window id of some Gtk3::Fixed or other widget (do all widgets have
> a window id?). The problem is that I can't figure out how to call get_xid on
> any of the widgets or their parent windows, the method does not seem to
> exist. How comes? I'm using libgtk3-perl 0.006-2, libgtk-3-0:i386  3.4.2-7
> on Debian.
>
> Interestingly this[1] Gtk2 based module uses a get_id method, not get_xid,
> but I couldn't find that either.
>
> [1]
> http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GBROWN/Gtk2-Ex-MPlayerEmbed-0.02/lib/Gtk2/Ex/MPlayerEmbed.pm
>
> Why, how can I work around it, etc.?

You need to call get_id on a Gtk3::Socket.
That's gtk_socket_get_id() in C:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk3-GtkSocket.html#gtk-socket-get-id