Re: newbie directions?

[Yiannis Gatsoulis <menig leeds ac uk>]

thank you all for your help and your advices. i was still going a bit 
mad as i had a gtkcomboboxentry and
gtk_combo_set_popdown_strings(GTK_COMBO(tableCombo),  tableNames);
was failing  with the errors:
invalid cast from gtkcomboboxentry  to gtkcombo
gtk_combo_set_popdown....: assertion GTK_IS_COMBO (combo) failed

i thought that class gtkcomboboxentry is a subclass of gtkcombobox which 
in turn is a subclass of gtkcombo and as a result it would inherit all 
its properties and methods. isnt that the case? i also tried it with 
gtkcombobox with no luck. anyway, it worked fine only when i changed 
widgets to gtkcombo in the xml file.

thanks again.

-yiannis



John Medrano wrote:

> --- Yiannis Gatsoulis <menig leeds ac uk> wrote:
>  
>
> > hi,
> >
> > accept my apologies since probably this has been
> > asked. i have already 
> > looked on the web and the email list for all the
> > documentation but they 
> > are a bit confusing or most of them are for c++
> > (using gtkmm).
> >
> > i am a newbie in Gtk. i am trying to implement a
> > graphical application 
> > and for that i am using Glade to design the
> > interface, libglade for the 
> > translation from the xml file and C with gtk-2.0 for
> > the coding.
> >    
>
> Verify that you are using Glade2 with GTK-2.0.
>
>  
>
> > my question is: is there a newbie introductory
> > tutorial for these.
> >
> > secondary questions that i am trying to resolve are:
> > 1. is there a way that  glade_get_widget_tree or
> > smth similar to read 
> > the widget tree from the xml file by passing as an
> > argument the filename 
> > instead of a GtkWidget so i can retrieve a
> > particular widget?
> >    
>
> Sorry I can not help you here.
>
>  
>
> > 2. how can i populate a gtk combo box entry?
> > preferably from the 
> > initialisation.
> >    
>
> GList             *tableNames = NULL;
> GtkWidget         *tableCombo;
>
> /* Initialize Table Name Combo Box */
> tableCombo = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(mainWindow),
> "comboSelTable");
> /* lookup_widget routine is provided by glade in
> generated file support.c*/
>
> /* tblname is array with names for combo box */
> for(i = 0; i < NUMTBLS; i++)  
> 	tableNames = g_list_append(tableNames, tblname[i]); 
>
> gtk_combo_set_popdown_strings(GTK_COMBO(tableCombo),
> tableNames);
>
>
>
>  
>
> > 3. what are the GTK_ENTRY, GTK_EDITABLE, etc? they
> > seem to me like they 
> > are macros so they perform casting. but where can i
> > find them?
> >    
>
> First, locate gtk-2.0 header files on the system with:
> pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0
>
> The header files are under <your path>/gtk-2.0/gtk.
>
>  
>
> > sorry for these too newbie questions...
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > --
> > -yiannis
> >
> >
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