Using the combobox

[Steven Boyls <sboyls tuckerenergy com>]

I'm using Glade to design a front-end for my application. My question is 
how to I get the answer from
the combobox? The gtk documentation for the functions that I'm trying to 
use tell me that I can only use these
functions if the combobox was created using gtk_combo_box_new_text().  
Well, if I'm using Glade to create these
combobox's and not gtk_combo_box_new_text() how do I get the chosen text 
from the widget?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve