Re: getting text from an entry box

[Matt Hillebrand <hill9361 uidaho edu>]

By the way, gtk_entry_get_text() is deprecated. I've actually run into
seg.faults because of it. Use gtk_editable_get_chars() instead.

Matthew P. Hillebrand

On 23 Mar 2001, Maher Awamy wrote:

> you need to g_strdup() what you get before inserting it in the glist - dont
> forget to g_free() it later when you dont need it anymore ... so
>
>     config_data = g_list_append (config_data,
>   g_strdup(gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry1))));
>
> is what you should be doing.
>
> Maher
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:27:32 -0500, Jeremy Savoy said:
>
> > I have a gtk text entry box that I would like to use to get information
> >  from a user in a gnome druid app. I am using the following:
> >
> >    config_data = g_list_append (config_data,
> >  gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry1)));
> >
> >  to get the data from the entry box 'entry1' and put it into the GList
> >  config_data. config_data also contains data from several combo boxes, but
> >  when I print the contents of the list, no matter what order I inserted the
> >  data from entry1, there is always a blank line in the place of data that
> >  was entered. I'm pretty new to gtk/gnome programming so the problem may be
> >  obvious but I'm at a loss here. Any ideas or suggestions??
> >
> >
> >  Regards,
> >
> >  Jeremy Savoy
> >
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> >
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