Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/25/2003 - 15:14.

• Developers

This issue`s been bugging me for a while and I`ve found plenty of workarounds, but I`ve always wondered if I was missing some shortcut...

In a callback function that is shared by several widgets, say, all the buttons and text bars in an app, is there a way to determine which widget called the function by looking at any attributes of the widget itself?

So, instead of determining if a certain widget called the function by making the widget global and using the actual variable name

if(widget == myButton)

or a pointer to it

if(widget == *refToMyButton)

Is it possible to do something like this

XtVaGetValues(widget, ,
charstr, NULL);
if(charstr == <"Enroll", whatever>)

Ben