Re: Using the combobox

["shawn bright" <nephish gmail com>]

Hey, i know this wasn't my question, but i appreciate the answer. i get the
same confusion over how glade did this.  Thanks

shawn

On 8/28/06, Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org> wrote:
> Steven Boyls wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Hi Steven,
>     if you set any items in the combobox from glade (i.e. the "items"
> property),
> then libglade will construct your combobox as if it were created with
> gtk_combo_box_new_text(), otherwise libglade will assume you are setting
> up
> your combo box with your own GtkTreeModel and your own GtkCellRenderers.
>
> So in the most practicle case, you can just go ahead and use
> gtk_combo_box_get_active_text().
>
> Cheers,
>                         -Tristan
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