Re: gtk_entry_get_text() - having problems with return type

[Keith Sharp <kms passback co uk>]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 01:16, Raymond Wan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Ben LeMasurier wrote:
> > warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > 
> > gethostbyname() requests a char *
> > and gtk_entry_get_text() returns G_CONST_RETURN gchar*
> 
> 	According to the glib docs, a G_CONST_RETURN gchar* is typedef'ed
> to a char* (See glib, basic types in the docs).  But, as it stresses in
> the gtk_entry_get_text (), you shouldn'tfree, modify, or store it.  I
> think I malloc'ed a temporary variable of type char * and did a strcpy and
> that worked fine.  Just don't try storing it with an assignment...

What I normally do is use g_strdup (), eg:

gchar *name;
GtkWidget *name_entry;

name = g_strdup (gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(name_entry)));

g_print ("The name was: %s\n", name);
g_free (name);

Keith.