Hi. I think it's common practice in gtk programming to create structure of all widgets that are needed across the application and then pass a pointer to that structure to the callbacks that need access to GUI.
2008/12/16 Harinandan S <[email protected]>: > Hi All, > > I am using Gtk+ 2.12.2 and Glade 3. I create windows using glade3 and use > GtkBuilder to create widgets. My application has many windows and each > window has a builder object associated with this. At some point of time I > have many windows open. I need to change some widgets in one window > depending on changes done to other widgets in another window. For example in > one window I show a label, the current file selected and if user changes the > file using another window which has a file chooser dialog I'll update the > label. > > This requires pointer to the label. There are multiple dependencies like > this. Is there any way that I not maintain global variables and get the > pointer to other widgets? I have instances where there are more than two > windows open and multiple widget from other windows need to be accessed. > Also I cannot have all of them in one builder since I cannot afford to spend > memory to create all windows at a time. > > How to manage this and access different pointers in different windows? > Regards, > Harinandan S > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > -- Tadej Borovšak 00386 (0)40 613 131 [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
