Re: regetting text from entry widgets

[Jeff Shipman <shippy nmt edu>]

gtk_entry_get_text() is deprecated. You should
use gtk_editable_get_chars() instead. I'm pretty
sure repeated calls to the function should
continue to return the string.

Hope this helps!

Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy nmt edu
Computer Science Major    ICQ: 1786493
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy

On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Eamonn Martin Galvin wrote:

>
> I want to re-get user inputted text from an entry widget:
>
> It works fine when I get it the first time, but I just get a NULL
> if I call gtk_entry_get_text again.
>
> Any ideas how I can get around this?
>
> Eamonn Galvin