GTK Question: Getting the widget at a position?

[Josh]

Is there any way to get what widget or window exists at a certain point onscreen? It's no good to go through the top window and try to figure it out by dimensions, because you don't know the order any child windows are drawn in. The command would be something like this:

GTKWidget* gtk_get_widget_at_coordinates(int x, int y);

[beo6]

i wonder how why you would need that?

 

isn't the main purpose of a UI toolkit to don't have to worry about every widget position?

[Rick]

I know in .NET you use something like this for the treeview.

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.treeview.getnodeat(v=vs.110).aspx

[Guppy]

This http://chipx86.github.io/gtkparasite/ styles it self as 'firebug for gtk' so it stands to reason that they found a way of doing it.

 

 

Sourcecode: https://github.com/chipx86/gtkparasite/ (MIT license)