Re: help regarding the combobox

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 04/08/2005 01:40:02 AM, poonam chokshi wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am using the combobox in the heirarchy as shown
> -Main window
>         -secframe
>                 -secfixed
>                         -seccmb
> Now i am trying to add some data to the the combo box usingthe
> g_list_append()
> function in my own callback defined in the callback.c ..But it
> gives
> me the segmentationfault
> My function goes like this....
>
> int parse_ini_file(char * ini_name)
> {
>         int i=0;
>         GtkWidget *seccmbentry;
>         GList *items=NULL;
>         GList *seccmb_items=NULL;
> 	 
> 	ini = iniparser_load(ini_name); //library function that
> i am using
>         if (ini==NULL)
>         {
>                 fprintf(stderr, "cannot parse file [%s]",
> ini_name);
>                 return -1 ;
>         }
>         section=iniparser_getnsec(ini); //library function that
> will return the count
>         printf("the number of sections:%d\n",section);
>         seccmbentry = GTK_COMBO (seccmb)->entry;
>         for(i=0;i<=section-1;i++)
>         {
>                 seccmb_items=iniparser_getsecname(ini,i);
> //library function
>                 printf("Items=%s\n",seccmb_items);
>                 items=g_list_append(items,seccmb_items);
> //giving segmentation fault over here
>         }
> 	 
> 	gtk_entry_set_text (GTK_ENTRY (seccmbentry),
> seccmb_items);
>         gtk_combo_set_popdown_strings (GTK_COMBO (seccmb),
> items);
>
>         iniparser_freedict(ini); //library function
>         return 0;
> }

Your declaration of seccmb_items looks strange.  What type does  
iniparser_getsecname() return?  Doesn't gtk_entry_set_text  
(GTK_ENTRY (seccmbentry), seccmb_items) raise a compiler  
warning?  You're passing a GList* pointer as const gchar*.