Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • SEARCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 6903697
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 27, 20262026-05-27T07:57:28+00:00 2026-05-27T07:57:28+00:00

I’m making a board like this GtkWidget *board[x][y]; If I do an array of

  • 0

I’m making a board like this

GtkWidget *board[x][y];

If I do an array of buttons, how can I know which button was pressed?

Does

g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(board[][]), "clicked",  
       G_CALLBACK(board_button_pressed), NULL);
// I want to know what [][] they pressed, how could I verify/check this?

return which button of the array was pressed? Or do I have to make a separate function for each of the board pieces?

For example:

OOO
OXO
OOO

How to know which button was pressed if all of the buttons are named the same?

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-27T07:57:29+00:00Added an answer on May 27, 2026 at 7:57 am

    One of the simplest way would be to just send the information when you are connecting to the callback as data. Something on these lines:

    ...
    
    typedef struct _identifier{
        int x;
        int y;
    }identifier;
    
    static void button_clicked_cb(GtkButton *button, gpointer data)
    {
        (void)button; /*To get rid of compiler warning*/
        identifier *id = data;
        printf("\n id = %d, %d\n", id->x, id->y);
        return;
    }
    ....
        identifier id[x*y]; /* Size of x*y of the board*/
        unsigned int counter = 0;
        for (i = 0; i < x; i++)
        {
            for (j = 0; j < y; j++)
            {
                id[counter].x = i;
                id[counter].y = j;
                board[i][j] = gtk_button_new ();
                g_signal_connect(board[i][j], "clicked", G_CALLBACK(button_clicked_cb), &id[counter]);
                counter++;
            }                                                                                                                                                     
        }
    

    Please note that "clicked" signal is associated only with GtkButton. If you need to use with GtkWidget then look at "button-press-event" or "button-release-event", in which case the callback signature will also change.
    Hope this helps!

    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Related Questions

Does anyone know how can I replace this 2 symbol below from the string
I have a string like this: La Torre Eiffel paragonata all&#8217;Everest What PHP function
For some reason, after submitting a string like this Jack’s Spindle from a text
I would like to run a str_replace or preg_replace which looks for certain words
I'm parsing an RSS feed that has an &#8217; in it. SimpleXML turns this
I have some data like this: 1 2 3 4 5 9 2 6
link Im having trouble converting the html entites into html characters, (&# 8217;) i
I would like to count the length of a string with PHP. The string
I am trying to understand how to use SyndicationItem to display feed which is
I used javascript for loading a picture on my website depending on which small

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.