Re: Locating child-widgets (by name) without Glade-code

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 04:08, Michal Tomcanyi wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I don't know for what reason do you want to locate your widgets, but in my
>  case I used gtk_container_get_focus_chain() and 
>  gtk_container_set_focus_chain().
>  You can pre-define order of your widgets and "save" the order to the
>  container using set() function. When needed, the list can be obtained by
>  get() function. As you have pre-defined the order, you can be sure about
>  it and search it safely... (I am not sure how it works with
>  gtk_container_get_children())
>
>  It is neither fast nor clean, but it can help if you don't want to use a
>  lot of global variables.

Please don't do this! :-)  

If you feel a need to use gtk_widget_get_name() to locate widgets, just
recursively hunt using gtk_container_foreach(). Or use a hash table.

Using the focus chain for this is not a sensible thing. The focus chain
is for setting the order in which widgets are focused.

Regards,
                                                Owen