Re: Combo box and GList

[learfox furry ao net]

> In my application I created a combo box which gets drawn when the
> program starts up. The combo box will be holding variable names read
> from a file but because the file has not been specified by the user the
> combo is blank. After the user selects a file the code parses the data
> and extracts a list of variable names which are appended to a GList type
> in the following way:
>
> TAMAL_GLBL->variable_index_list =
> g_list_append(TAMAL_GLBL->variable_index_list, g_strdup(local_status));
>
> Unfortunately even though the index list gets data appended to it, the
> variable names do not display inside the combo box even after running:
>
> while (gtk_events_pending())
> {
>      gtk_main_iteration();
> }
>
> Is there a way to get the variables to display after showing the combo
> box ?

I think the list of items that the combo box has is internal, meaning when
you set a new list the values are coppied.

If you update the list you passed to the combobox nothing happens because
the combo box has no idea of the list.

What I did was to create a list as a `back buffer', it's used to represent
what the combo box has, whenever I need to add or remove something I just
modify that list and add it to the combo box again each time I update the
list.

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