Re: Alternative to gtk_widget_set_sensitive on GetComboBoxEntry

[salsaman <salsaman gmail com>]

Try:

gtk_editable_set_editable(GTK_EDITABLE(entry), FALSE);


Regards,
Salsaman.

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On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Ian Puleston
<ian underpressuredivers com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
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> I have a dialog with a GetComboBoxEntry and under certain circumstances I
> need to make it non-user-editable, but still want it to display the selected
> entry. I’m using gtk_widget_set_sensitive to disable it, but a side effect
> of that is that when set insensitive it displays blank and does not show the
> selected entry.
>
>
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> I can’t say 100% for sure but I think that this used to work with earlier
> versions of GTK? I say that because my code gets the selected entry via a
> gtk_combo_box_get_active_text call on it, and that is now failing (returning
> an empty string) and throwing an error when the combo is insensitive, and
> I’m pretty sure that it never used to get that error.
>
>
>
> The latter problem I’ve worked around, but I would still like the control to
> show the user which entry is selected when it is not enabled (just like a
> disabled JavaScript select element does). So is there a way to make it do
> that?
>
>
>
> This is with the latest GTK 2.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ian
>
>
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