Finding children of a GtkWidget

Question

I need to be able to explore a GTK GUI\'s structure programmatically. I have the GtkWidget and I want to find any children of that widget. Now I know that GtkContainer\'s have a

Answer 1

Yes, there are macros for every GObject type to check whether an object is of that type:

if(GTK_IS_CONTAINER(widget)) {
    GList *children = gtk_container_get_children(GTK_CONTAINER(widget));
    ...
}

If the widget is a GtkBin it has only one child. In that case, the following is simpler than dealing with a GList:

if(GTK_IS_BIN(widget)) {
    GtkWidget *child = gtk_bin_get_child(GTK_BIN(widget));
    ...
}