[Glade-users] Using status bar

[jberthon CapGemini fr (Jean-Christophe Berthon)]

> Brian Kerhin wrote:
> > Hello all,>         I'm going to make a new front end for my rio500 and
then (after gaining some
> > experiance) attempt to help w/ the current grio500 project (or maybe
they'll
> > just take my front end and call it a day :).  I've got a book that took
me
> > through getting info onto a dialog box, but I would like to add text to
the
> > appbar (GnomeAppBar) on the bottom of a Default Gnome Application Window.
I'm
> > having problems getting a pointer to it.  I know I need lookup_widget,
but what
> > would I use?  I've attempted the following:
> >
> > GtkWidget *appbar1;
> > appbar1 = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "appbar1");
> >
> > I've also tried GTK_WIDGET(app1) and GTK_WIDGET(window1), all give me
wonderful
> > compile errors.  My book didn't give me much to go on here (Professional
Linux
> > Programming, Wrox) so I look to you.
> You can only use lookup_widget() to get a pointer to a widget within
> the same window, e.g. the same window that 'button' is in in your code
above. To get pointers to widgets in other >windows the FAQ may help a bit:
4.6 How do I get a pointer to a widget in another window? You need to keep
track of >pointers to all your toplevel windows.
> For simple applications you can just use global variables to store these
> pointers. For more complicated applications you can use the
gtk_object_set_data() and
> related functions to store a pointer to one window inside another window.
> For example, if you want to create a dialog which needs to access widgets
in
> the main window you can do this:   dialog = create_dialog1 ();  /* Call the
function generated by Glade. */
>  gtk_object_set_data (GTK_OBJECT (dialog), "main_window", main_window);
Then when you need to access the >main window from within the dialog code,
> you can do this:   main_window = gtk_object_get_data (GTK_OBJECT (dialog),
"main_window"); NOTE: You need to >be careful to ensure that the pointer is
always valid.
> If the window being pointed to is destroyed, make sure you no longer use
the
> pointer to it or your application may crash.
> Damon

Hello there,

first sorry to reply to such an old email (dated of 14 of may).
But I'd like some info about this FAQ. In the FAQ of GTK (on gtk.org) or of
Glade (on glade.gnome.org), I didn't manage to find this question neither by
the content or the question number (4.6)! Could somebody point me to this
FAQ?


Best regards,
---
Jean-Christophe Berthon

Cap Gemini -- Ernst & Young
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Skill Aerospace -- Image Quality
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