Re: gtk_editable_set_editable not working.

[José Antonio Sánchez <getaceres gmail com>]

Thanks, it was sensitive but not "Activable" (I don't know that
property in english since I'm using the spanish locale). Once I
changed this it's all ok.


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:17:11 -0400, Daniel Nilsson
<daniel oden homeip net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:02:53PM +0200, José Antonio Sánchez wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'm using gtk 2.4.11 on a Debian unstable system and I've got a problem.
> > I made a GUI using glade with anjuta. I want an entry widget to be not
> > editable until a button is pressed.
> > I checked in glade the editable property to no in the entry widget and
> > then added a handler to the clicked signal of the button with the
> > following code (on callbacks.c):
> >
> > void
> > on_boton_clicked               (GtkButton       *button,
> >                                         gpointer         user_data)
> > {
> >         printf("Clicked\n");
> >       GtkWidget *entry = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button),"entry");
> >       gtk_editable_set_editable(GTK_EDITABLE(entry),TRUE);
> > }
> >
> > but when I run the program and click on the button I can see the
> > clicked message (so the method is executed) but I cannot edit text in
> > the entry. Why? Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The reason is that glade is using gtk_widget_set_sensitive to set the
> widget insensitive. I reproduced your problem and the solution it to
> use this code instead to set it sensitive:
> 
>   GtkWidget *entry = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button),"entry");
>   gtk_widget_set_sensitive(GTK_WIDGET(entry),TRUE);
> 
> --
> Daniel Nilsson
> 
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