Re: how to i get the arrow-buttons moving?

[Gary Kline <kline thought org>]

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On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 04:45:37PM +0200, Marcus Karlsson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 04:39:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > here are thee labels that show up when you use the gcc compile string.
> > how do I get the up- and -down arrows to point at the label and echo the
> > "label strings"?
>
> You need to update the view when your signal handler is invoked. All you
> need is somewhere to store which label is currently selected, update it
> when the signal handler is called and update the view accordingly; for
> example by updating the label attributes. You can then use
> gtk_label_get_text () to fetch the text that a label displays.
>
>               Marcus

        thanks for your input, marcus, but could you give me a few lines of
        code?  I tried using the gtk_label_set_text() for over an hour
        last night until it felt like my shoulder was going to drop off and
        fall on the floor! 

        other than usinng "g_signal_connect()" to bail out with a Quit,
        the only times I see anything to do with a signal are after going 
        GTK_ARROW_UP or _DOWN....  I may have misplaced the 
        gtk_label_get_text() stuff.  

        iv'e got:

        gtk_label_get_text(GTK_LABEL(user_data), buf );

        which now looks aways off...  need more clues.

        gary



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