On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:50 -0600, Richard Plana wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to name / label and identify a widget? I'm pretty new > to Gtk programming and right now, once I've created my GtkWidget > hierarchy, there seems to be very little light support to traversing > it. For certain, each widget has a generic method for getting its > parent and children, but some widgets support non-linear placement > (like tables). Yet there seems to be no method to accessing > specialized container contents. > > The generic serialized method for accessing children is okay, I > suppose, but it's made a bit difficult for me by the fact that I can't > seem to label widgets (much more read back those labels). Do functions > exists that would help me with what I'm doing? Or should I just > hardcode a widget's numeric index and update that index if the widget > structure should change? its sound to me as if you are coming from a different GUI toolkit and are attempting to apply a programming model used there to GTK, when in fact a different model would be more appropriate. i've been using GTK for 7 years, and i simply never do anything like what you're describing. what problem are you trying to solve? btw, i do use gtk_widget_set_name () a lot but that is because it allows me to use RC files for style settings, nothing more. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
