g_list_append help!

[Dzung Nguyen <dunguyen iol unh edu>]

Hi,

I am developing an interactive GUI database using Glade and getting 
stuck with glist.
Anybody knows how to supply parameter to g_list_append by a string 
variable instead
of a physical string?  In particular, instead of the following line:

combo2_items = g_list_append (combo2_items, (gpointer) _("blue"));

I want to use:
combo2_items = g_list_append (combo2_items, (gpointer) _(entry_name));

where entry_name is a string variable.  I tried this and what appeared 
in combo2_items was
not the string represented by entry_name, but some weird characters???  

I have tried different ways to format entry_name (added '\0'. added " " 
around, didn't put it inside
parenthasis, didn't cast it ...).  None of them worked.  Anybody knows 
the solution?  Thanks a lot
in advance!


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