Re: Jump from PyGTK to C GTK

[Nicola Fontana <ntd entidi it>]

Il Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:52:01 +0100 Nils Söderman <nils meditalk com> scrisse:

> Hello, i have been using glade to build a GUI, doing an app to fill the 
> entry-boxes with data. OK so far. But when i wanted to color the boxes 
> with help of PyGTK according to their content and did not succeed with 
> that i decided to start using c instead, where i have 20 years more 
> experience. But i fell on a simple detail, when in PyGTK i wanted a 
> pointer to an entrybox, using MyBox  = builder.get_object ( "MyBoxID" ) 
> and tried to find an equivalent in GTK c i was in no luck. So, how to 
> exchange MyBox  = builder.get_object ( "MyBoxID" ) to c-acceptable code? 
> ALL the example code i have found uses pointer derived with a variant of 
> 'new', not applicable using glade! PLEASE point me right!

Hi,

the translation is basically 1:1.

    GtkEntry *MyBox = GTK_ENTRY(gtk_builder_get_object(builder, "MyBoxID"));

Ciao.
-- 
Nicola