Re: GtkEntryCompletion on a GtkCellRendererText

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 3/3/07, Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got a table of database rows set up using a GtkTreeView with a
> GtkListStore backend, and GtkCellRendererTexts for the table cells. This
> is all working nicely.
>
> What I'd like to do is have auto-completion available when editing the
> text cells, with a GtkEntryCompletion, but I can't figure out how to add
> one. The most likely way would be to get a pointer to the
> GtkCellRendererText's GtkEntry, but I can't find a way to do that. I
> also can't find any gtk_cell_renderer_text_* methods for adding a
> GtkEntryCompletion, or an object equivalent to a GtkEntryCompletion for
> use on GtkCellRendererTexts.

If it's not too late, I'd suggest trying first to code your own cell
renderer based on the GtkCellRendererText (add a property to specify
the completion), and when it works, propose it as an evolution in
bugzilla.

Vivien