I'm sure this is an FAQ but I've been unable to find the right answer. I'm new to GTK and Linux programming, my background is C programming in Windows and a little for the Mac. I'm using Glade to build an interface to a simple one window conversion type app. The confusion I am facing revolves around referencing widgets. Let's say I want to get the contents of an entry field. It seems that I cannot reference the entry field directly as in: temp = gtk_editable_get_chars(GTK_EDITABLE(entryStartNum), 0, -1); The above results in a seg fault. I've seen something about lookup_widget, but you have to specify some other widget as the first parameter. So I guess what I am ultimately asking is how to reference widgets...many thanks in advance. Steve W _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list