Re: [[glade--]Beginner question]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc usa net>]

"Dennis, Joseph D" <DennisJD BATTELLE ORG> wrote:
> I am writing a small application in C++ and want to put a gui front end on
> it.  I found this tutorial (http://writelinux.com/glade/index.php ) for
> Glade and C and have been trying to apply it to glademm and c++.  I am
stuck
> trying to figure out how to write this function in c++:
> 
> void on_button1_clicked(GtkButton *button, gpointer user_data){
> 
> GtkWidget * label = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "label1");
> GtkWidget * entry = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "entry1");
> 
> gchar output[50]="Hello ";
> strcat(output,gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry)));
> gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(label),output);
> }
> 
> Apparently the lookup_widget() method only applies to C.  How can I pull
the
> text out of the entry box and push it into the label in this function?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

I think you need libglademm, which might provide a widget lookup method. But
anway, whenever you've got a C GtkWhatever* you can get a Gtk::Whatever* by
using Gtk::wrap() - see the gtkmm FAQ.


Murray Cumming
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