[Glade-users] globals vs locals
Damon Chaplin
damon@helixcode.com
Wed, 27 Sep 2000 01:41:26 +0100
Friedrich Steven E CONT CNIN wrote:
>
> My app is a maintenance panel and it changes the style of widgets to
> visually convey info. When Glade generates the app, it declares all the
> widget pointers as local in interface.c. Since I need to use the pointers
> in many other modules, I remove them from interface.c and place them in
> main.h and externs.h (with an extern keyword). This works, but everytime I
> regen the app, I have to perform this step again, and it's getting more
> troublesome as the app grows. Is there an easier way??
Have you seen the lookup_widget() function which Glade provides for you?
If you don't want to use lookup_widget() all the time, you can just do it
once when you create the window, and keep all the pointers to the widgets
you need in a struct somewhere.
Damon