Re: ComboBox and TreeStore

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:23:22PM -0800, Mark Richardson wrote:
> Having some difficulty with a combo box and associated tree store.  When I do this, nothing shows up...
>    
>   GtkTreeStore *myTreeStore=gtk_tree_store_new(1, G_TYPE_STRING);
>   GtkWidget *myComboBox=lookup_widget(mainWindow, "myComboBox");
>   gtk_combo_box_set_model(GTK_COMBO_BOX(myComboBox), GTK_TREE_MODEL(myTreeStore));
>    
>   GtkTreeIter tempIter;
>   gtk_tree_model_get_iter(GTK_TREE_MODEL(myTreeStore), &tempIter);
>   gtk_tree_store_append(myTreeStore,  &iter, NULL);
>   gtk_tree_store_set(myTreeStore, &iter, 0, "test", -1);
>    
>   I ultimately want to make more than 1 column, and I need to change the tree store data on the fly.  So I 
> would like to use the treeStore instead of the default combo box new_text and append_text.

If you want to use your own model, you have also to set up
the view using the GtkCellView interface -- exactly as you
would do with a GtkTreeViewColumn.  No cell renderers set up
=> nothing is displayed.

Yeti


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