Re: Get active text from GtkComboBox

[Stefan Kost <kost imn htwk-leipzig de>]

A followup question:

should there be a g_object_unref(model); at the end of the function ?

Stefan

Martyn Russell wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:36 -0200, cesarbs brturbo com wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > My program has a GtkComboBox created with gtk_combo_box_new_text (),
> > and I would like to know how could I grab the active text on it. I
> > know there's a function called gtk_combo_box_get_active_text(), but
> > that only works with GTK+-2.6 that's still under development.
> >
> > How could I do that in GTK+-2.4?
>
>
> The following should work:
>
> GtkTreeModel *model;
> GtkTreeIter iter;
>
> model = gtk_combo_box_get_model (combo_box);
> if (gtk_combo_box_get_active_iter (combo_box, &iter)) {
>       gchar *str = NULL;
>       gtk_tree_model_get (model, &iter, 0, &str, -1);
>       
>       /* do something with str */
>
>       g_free (str);
> }

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