Recursively Creating Widgets during Run-time (gtkmm)

[mcross1882]

Hello everyone,

I'm new too these forums but need a little help with a gtkmm project of mine. First off, I've been programming with Gtk+ and gtkmm for about 4-5 years so I'm relatively seasoned at it. I'm no professional but I can get the job done. Currently in my project I am trying to create widgets after the program has executed and have them adapt to a template file that is read into memory. For the most part I have everything working but I cannot seem to get the signal handlers to connect properly with the appropriate field. For instance, I need to acquire a previous object that was allocated into the memory but was replaced by a new instance. The code looks something like this...

void CiteMite::add_query_field(const Glib::ustring str)
{
	//Creating new widgets and allocating dynamic memory
	m_hboxQuery = Gtk::manage (new Gtk::HBox(false, 5));
	m_lbQuery = Gtk::manage (new Gtk::Label(str + ":", 1.00, 0.50, false));
	m_entQuery = Gtk::manage (new Gtk::Entry);

	m_lbQuery->set_size_request(120, 30);

	//Unique Name Identifier
	m_hboxQuery->set_name(str + "_hbox");
	m_lbQuery->set_name(str + "_label");
	m_entQuery->set_name(str + "_entry");
		
	//De-reference and pack widgets into Horizontal Packing Box
	m_hboxQuery->pack_start(*m_lbQuery, false, true, 2);
	m_hboxQuery->pack_start(*m_entQuery, true, true, 2);

	//De-reference and pack widgets into main Vertical Packing Box
	m_vboxQuery.pack_start(*m_hboxQuery, true, true, 5);
	show_all_children(true);
};

Now I need to be able to retrieve the objects created by this function for later use. (Especially the Entry field) So any help on this would be great. Below I provided the source files for the entire program if you need a better understanding of what I'm talking about.

Thank You,
Matt

[mcross1882]

Alright so I gave a little to vague of a description so let me explain what I'm trying to do a little bit better...

First off, using the code above I want to encase it in a For() loop to create multiple input fields, like so...

for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
  add_query_field(str_data[i]);
}

NOTE: This is not the real use, I'm just simplifying to explain my point

Next, using a member function from the same class I want to access those input fields and retrieve their text, like so...

void CiteMite::on_btnOk_clicked()
{
  Glib::ustring str_data[11];

  for (int i=0; i<10; i++) {
    str_data[i] = m_entQuery->get_text();
  }
}

I hope this helps clarify the issue at hand.

Thanks,
Matt