[Glade-users] GtkComboBox question.

[zephod at cfl.rr.com (Steve)]

---- Charlie Brune <Glade at BruneWorld.com> wrote: 
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:57:01 -0500, Steve Blackwell <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > In this message:
> >
> > http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/glade-users/2008-October/004068.html
> >
> > Carlos Pereira says that "It seems that comboboxes made with glade are
> > not created with gtk_combo_box_new_text()"
> >
> > which means, according to the GTK+ reference manual, means that
> > gtk_combo_box_insert_text() won't work.
> >
> > Is this still the case and if so is there a workaround? I'm using Glade
> > 3.4.5 on a Fedora F9.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve.
>
> I had the same problem.  I got around it by putting an dummy entry into the "Items" property for the 
> combobox in glade.  Something like "eraseme" works just fine.  Having an entry in that property causes the 
> combobox to be created with gtk_combo_box_new_text().
>
> Then in my code, I simply erase this entry and put in the values that I really want.
>
>     gtk_combo_box_remove_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (cbo_yogurt), 0);  /* Gets rid of the "eraseme" value. */
>     gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (cbo_yogurt), "Vanilla");
>     gtk_combo_box_append_text (GTK_COMBO_BOX (cbo_yogurt), "Strawberry");
>
> Note that, in this example, I've hard-coded the "Vanilla" and "Strawberry" values.  If this was really my 
> desire, it would certainly be easier to just specify them using Glade.  In reality, I read the values from 
> a file and add them using the gtk_combo_box_append_text() function in a loop.
>
> I hope this helps.

I believe it will! I'll give it a try.
Thank you.

Steve