Merge dave's commits

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tutorius/gtkutils.py b/tutorius/gtkutils.py
index 1a9cb0f..c96a73f 100644
--- a/tutorius/gtkutils.py
+++ b/tutorius/gtkutils.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def raddr_lookup(widget):
     return ".".join(name)
 
 
-def find_widget(base, target_fqdn):
+def find_widget(base, target_fqdn, ignore_errors=True):
     """Find a widget by digging into a parent widget's children tree
     @param base the parent widget
     @param target_fqdn fqdn-style target object name
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ def find_widget(base, target_fqdn):
         try:
             obj = get_children(obj)[int(path.pop(0))]
         except:
-            break
+            if ignore_errors:
+                break
+            return None
 
     return obj