[Glade-users] reading from xml documents to combo boxes

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

ah yes you have to either put a dummy item or setup the liststore
yourself, youll find an example of that in libglade/glade/glade-gtk.c .

cheers,
           -Tristan

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Atmadarshini devi dasi
<atmadarshini_dd at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> From: Atmadarshini devi dasi <atmadarshini_dd at yahoo.com>
> To: Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org>
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:39:05 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [Glade-users] reading from xml documents to combo boxes
> hi
>
> thanks for the reply. i tried what u said. it works but only in the
> situation if there is items that are already present in the combo box. what
> i want to do is populate the combo box with items from an xml document for
> example
>
> <addressbook>
>     <contact1>
>        <lastname>Grey</lastname>
>        <firstname>John</firstname>
>     </contact1>
>     <contact2>
>        <lastname>Black</lastname>
>        <firstname> Mary</firstname>
>     </contact2>
> </addressbook>
>
> now i want my items in the combo box to be initially empty but i want to
> populate the lastnames for instance grey and black into the combobox and
> when i choose grey, i want the corresponding firstname to appear in a text
> entry box. how do i go about doing this? i am creating like an address book.
>
> Is combo box the best choice or is there another widget that is better and
> easier to use?
>
> thanks
>
> Tristan Van Berkom <tvb at gnome.org> wrote:
>  On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Atmadarshini devi dasi
>  wrote:
> > hi there
> >
> > I am trying to implement an address book and am using glade as the tool to
> > design my graphical user interface. I am programming in c and saving in an
> > xml document.
> >
> > my graphical user interfce window consists of a combo box and a few text
> > entry boxes.
> >
> > Now what I am trying to do is to read in from my xml documents into the
> > combo box and text entry boxes.
> >
> > When i read into my text entry box, it is a success but I am having
> problems
> > reading into my combo box. I know that the part where i get the
> information
> > from the xml file is working because i can read the content onto the
> console
> > window.
> >
> > I have pasted the code where i am trying to read into the combo box below.
> > Please tell me where I am going wrong. Thank you.
> >
> > GtkWidget *vlname_entry_widget =
> > lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(view_address_window), "vlname_combo");
> > gtk_combo_box_set_active (GTK_COMBO_BOX(vlname_entry_widget),
> > address->lastname);
>
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkComboBox.html#gtk-combo-box-set-active
>
> "lastname" here should be an integer.
>
> Cheers,
>  -Tristan
>
>
> > in the code above, address->lastname is pointing to the lastname node in
> the
> > xml document
> >
> >
> > GtkWidget *vfname_entry_widget =
> > lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(view_address_window), "vfname_entry");
> > gtk_entry_set_text(GTK_ENTRY(vfname_entry_widget), address->firstname);
> >
> > this code above works fine. I can read the entry into the text entry box.
> >
> > please help.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Aakanksha
> >
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