Re: Bad documentation for Combo Box

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 01/18/2005 10:00:17 PM, Fabricio Rocha wrote:
> Bug in documentation? Looks like sort of. I found out that the  
> GTK2 Tutorial explains a way of using combo boxes which are not  
> the same to which the GTK 2 Reference refers to. It is  
> "GtkCombo" against "GtkComboBox". I have also noted that in  
> Glade the old combobox is not even listed, at least not with  
> that name (in the Obsolete palette, there is something called  
> OptionMenu).
>
> In fact, what I needed was a rather simple, "read-only" combo  
> box. Something like... it would load a list of strings before  
> being shown, and afterwards the selected value/string could be  
> retrieved. Is there a simple way to get that? Sorry if that  
> offends someone, but for me it seems that all this new stuff  
> about iters, models, cell renderer etc. are a good concept  
> which are implemented in a very very complicated way...

See  
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-migrating-GtkComboBox.html  
-- the gtk_combo_box_text_ ``convenience'' methods should do just  
about what you want.

Peter