Re: Urgent help on GValue

[Olexiy Avramchenko <ath beast stu cn ua>]

Matteo Frigerio wrote:

> Hello, probally for many people this is a stupid
> question but i can't understand the way to get the
> cursor position in a selectable label (under gtk-2.0).
> I use the g_object_get_property(G_OBJECT(mylabel),
> "cursor_pos", &mygvalue);
> in the focus-in event but don't work. I think 
> that don't work because i have bad init the GValue.
> Really i don't understand how to init a new GValue.
> The code that i use is this:
>
> GValue mygvalue;
> GType  mytype;
>
> memset(&mygvalue,0,sizeof(GValue));
> G_TYPE_MAKE_FUNDAMENTAL(mytype);
> g_value_init(&mygvalue,&mytype);
>
> but i think this is not good.
> Some one can help me ? How code i have to use ?
GValue initalization:
{
GValue value={0};

   g_value_init(&value, G_TYPE_INT);    /* cursor_position is of gint 
type */
}

You can use g_object_get() function to avoid value handling:
{
gint pos;
   g_object_get(G_OBJECT(label), "cursor_position",&pos, NULL);
}

Olexiy