Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

2748.0. "How to get the widget_ids?" by KLEE::SCHMIDT (Christiane Schmidt, @KLE Germany) Fri May 11 1990 07:59

    One simple question:
    
    I define in UIL the main_widget with all its controls ...
    
    I open the UID-hierarchy with the routine DwtOpenHierarchy.
    
    Is there a way to find out the widget_ids of all the widgets
    in the opened hierarchy? I think with the routine DwtFetchWidget
    i can only fetch widgets, which do not hang in any hierarchy
    defined in UIL.
    
    I can get the widget_id by defining a callback_procedure. But
    i liked to get the id in another way.
    
    Any ideas?
    
    Thanks
    	Christiane

    Using "create" callbacks is the better way of getting the widget id.
    Alternate is to use the function XtNameToWidget(top-level-widget,names)
    See the "XUI toolkit intrinsics manual (C bindings)" section 11.2
    "Utility functions"
    
    Robert

    The DECburger approach to this problem works pretty well.  Having a
    table with every widget ID your application uses is overkill sometimes,
    but the flexibility of easy access to any widget ID is worth it.
    
    Barry