Gimp.Item.get_children

### Method

# Gimp Itemget_children

since: 2.8

#### Declaration [src]

    GimpItem**
    gimp_item_get_children (
      GimpItem* item,
      gint* num_children
    )

#### Description [src]

Returns the item’s list of children.

This procedure returns the list of items which are children of the specified item. The order is topmost to bottommost.

Available since: 2.8

This method is not directly available to language bindings.

#### Parameters

`num_children`

  Type: `gint*`

  The item’s number of children.

  The argument will be set by the function.

#### Return value

Type: An array of `None`

         The item's list of children.
         The returned value must be freed with g_free().

The length of the array is in the `num_children` argument.
The caller of the method takes ownership of the data container, but not the data inside it.