[Glade-users] globals vs locals... again

[james cameron compaq com (James Cameron)]

"James K. Wiggs" wrote:
> Then lookup_widget() first does a loop looking for the parentless
> widget, i.e. the top-level window, 

Damon, perhaps it should use gtk_widget_get_toplevel() instead.  ;-)

> Then if I did a modified version of lookup_widget() which only looked
> at the child objects of the widget, not doing that loop up to the
> top-level, I could pass it the address of the frame containing the
> table and I should be able to get the right widgets in the right order.
> Does this sound reasonable?

Yes, and quite simple.

Although if it is that important, I'd be saving the widget pointers in a
structure or array at the outset rather than doing a name lookup each
time.

>    Yes, it sounds painful, indeed.  Still, it might be nice to set up a
> version of lookup_widget() which only loops through the children of the
> widget passed to it, looking for one with the appropriate name.

Easily done.  I needed a version of lookup_widget() that does not
complain if it fails to find the widget.  I just copied it and called it
widget().

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