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From: achan@sparkle.tdd.sj.nec.com (Amy Chan)
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Subject: Re: pointer on children of a widget.
Keywords: XtParent
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Date: 10 Jun 91 18:12:38 GMT
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In article <234@taloa.unice.fr> cambon@mimosa.unice.fr (Thierry Cambon) writes:
>Can someone tell me how to get a pointer on the children
>of a given widget ? I know the toolkit macro XtParent(w)
>to get the parent id. Is there a similar funtion to get
>the children id. ?
>
>  Thanks.

For X11R4, you can use the following:

    WidgetList children;
    Cardinal num_children;

    XtVaGetValues(parent, XtNchildren, &children,
                XtNnumChildren, &num_children, NULL);

which will return the children as a widget list and the number of children
on that list.


Amy Chan
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