Re: NULL text entries?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"David J. Topper" <topper virginia edu> writes:
> 
> I'm trying to set up text entry boxes that are empty.  Unfortunately,
> when I create one as such, I get the following error:
> 
> Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkentry.c: line 398 (gtk_entry_set_text):
> assertion `text != NULL' failed.
> 
> It's not a show stopper, but I'd rather avoid it.
> 
> Isn't there a way to create  text entry with nothing in it?  I mean,
> besides the quick hack of stashing " " in there.
> 

How about using ""? That's the intended method - an empty string. NULL
is different, it's not a string at all.

Havoc