Re: Widgets across windows

[Mihai Bazon <mbazon websci ro>]

Hi,

find answer embedded in your mail.

Cheers,
Mishoo

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:28:33 -0700
Eric Lesh <eclesh pacbell net> wrote:

> I come from Visual Basic ...

Ohh...!  That's terrible!

> I have a window wndMain with a button btnRand.  When btnRand is pressed,
> it is supposed to generate a random string, place the random string in 
> rndstr, and then place the value of rndstr in rndbox, a text box on form
> wndRand.  When I use:
>     GtkWidget *rndtxt, *wndRand;
>
>     wndRand = create_wndRand();
>     rndtxt = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button),  "rndbox");

Use instead:

      rndtxt = lookup_widget(wndRand, "rndbox");

This means: you're right, you must specify the parent widget (which is
wndRand).  What I don't see is who is "button"?

Also, from this code I understand you're using Glade to generate the
source code.  That's good, but may not work unless you selected "set
widget names" checkbox, somewhere in the project preferences dialog.

Yet another thing: Glade provides another (very powerful) way to load the
graphical interface: you save every window in a .glade file, which is
basically a XML file, and it provides a separate library which you can use
to load and show the widgets defined in that file.  This way you don't
mess with Glade generated code, which is sometimes hard to modify or
improve.  So, for more iofo about this check "libglade" --
http://glade.pn.org.

> and run it, I get the error "** WARNING **: Widget not found: rndbox" 
>  In my experience with Visual Basic, you have to specify that the widget
> (rndbox) is on a different form than the button (btnRand).  If I do have
> to do this, what is the code to do so?
>
> Gxis posxte
> -Eric
>
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