Greetings all...
I'm fairly new to GTK and to C for that matter, but I cannot seem to find an
example, or docs that describe exactly what I'm trying to do.
The accepted MO I see most often for adding multiples of any object to a
window seems to be something along the line of:
GtkWidget *CreateWindow ( void )
{
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *label;
GtkWidget *entry;
/* toplevel window creation code omitted for
* space conservation purposes */
label = gtk_label_new ("First Name: ");
entry = gtk_entry_new ( );
/* Pack and show the above 2 widgets, then... */
label = gtk_label_new ("Last Name: ");
entry = gtk_entry_new ( );
/* pack and show....repeat as needed */
/* create, pack and show OK and cancel buttons, then: */
gtk_widget_show (window);
return ( window );
}
My question is this... Let's say this window is a dialog box, that contains
entries for First name, last name, and phone number. After the user clicks
the 'OK' button, I wish to call a sub to verify the data entered (no blank
fields, no funny business with escape chars, etc).
My question is this. In the function I call via the OK buttons "clicked"
event, is there a way to reference each of the entry widgets separately?
IOW, since they were all created with the same declared var, 'entry', is
there a way to tell which is which once I am in another func? Or do I have
to create them all separately, passing each one's variable out to the verify
func? Make them global?
My intuition was that this was what gtk_widget_set_name() was for.
Like...after creating the entry, before creating another, I call
gtk_widget_set_name on it, then in my verify func, I could refer to them
according to parent-><entry name>. Apparently this is not the case. Could
someone shed some light on this for me?
Thanks...
-HaB
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