RE: some comments on 2.4.0

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:05, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> > > GtkComboBoxEntry
> > > ------------------------------------
> > > - the entry is editable, but there is no way to get the current
> text?
> > >   (what is the sense of the entry being editable?)\
> > 
> > gtk_bin_get_child() gives you the GtkEntry
> 
> 
> Hi Owen, 
> 
> Something tells me this will be another FAQ similar to how you get the
> menu item label question which was frequent prior to GTK 2.4 (not sure
> if it has changed in 2.4?).  It IMO is not intuitive to new comers,
> shouldn't there be a convenience API for this?

It is actually mentioned in the API docs, though not in the most obvious
of places:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkComboBoxEntry.html#gtk-combo-box-entry-new-with-model

Keith.