Re: How to use a combo box with a cell renderer

[John Finlay <finlay moeraki com>]

Hudson Lee wrote:

> Hmm... I thought that was perfectly clear, ok I'll spell it out for you folks.
> All I want is to be able to use a combo box with a model view. My problem
> is this doesn't work because I can't get the text to show up in the items in
> the combo box. Ie. I get the combo box but when I click it 
> "Why can't I see this text at all" isn't there, I get a blank line.
>  
Add the line below.

> Here is my test program again since I'm not sure anyone actually read it the 
> first time. Does this program work for other people? Perhaps my gtk is messed 
> up even though text based (not model) combo boxes work fine.
> //compile with...
> //gcc combo_test.c -o ct `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0` && ./ct
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
>
>  GtkWidget *window, *combo;
>  GtkListStore *store;
>  GtkTreeIter iter;
>  GtkCellRenderer *renderer;
>
>  gtk_init (&argc, &argv);
>  window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>  
>  store = gtk_list_store_new(1, G_TYPE_STRING);
>  gtk_list_store_append(store, &iter);
>  gtk_list_store_set(store, &iter, 0, "Why can't I see this text at all", -1);
>  combo = gtk_combo_box_new_with_model(GTK_TREE_MODEL(store));
>  renderer = gtk_cell_renderer_text_new();
>  gtk_cell_layout_pack_start(GTK_CELL_LAYOUT(combo), renderer, TRUE);
>  
       gtk_cell_layout_add_attribute(GTK_CELL_LAYOUT(combo), renderer, 
"text", 0);

>  gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), combo);
>  gtk_widget_show_all(window);
>  gtk_main();
>  return 0;
> }
>