need some design advice

[Rob Benton <rob benton conwaycorp net>]

Here's my situation.  I have a Gtk::Table holding a number of 
Gtk::EventBox's defined at runtime.  I want to catch a 
click/button_press event on each of the eventboxes.  Inside this handler 
I also want to be able to check the status of the surrounding 
eventboxes.  But I can't send a call back to the table b/c that makes a 
circular dependency between the 2 classes.

The only half-sane solution I could come up with is to give each 
eventbox class 4 member variables which are pointers to the 4 eventboxes 
around it.  But I'm thinking there's a better way to do this.  Help me 
out here.