Re: Alternative to gtk_widget_set_sensitive on GetComboBoxEntry

[salsaman <salsaman gmail com>]

Hmmm...how about:

gtk_combo_box_set_button_sensitivity(GTK_COMBO_BOX(entry), GTK_SENSITIVITY_OFF);


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On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Ian Puleston
<ian underpressuredivers com> wrote:
> Thanks, for the suggestion, but nope. Your suggestion gives a
> "gtk_editable_set_editable: assertion `GTK_IS_EDITABLE (editable)' failed"
> assertion failure. The following works to make the entry field non-editable:
>
> gtk_editable_set_editable(GTK_EDITABLE(gtk_bin_get_child(GTK_BIN(entry))),
> FALSE);
>
> However, what that achieves is just to make the entry field non-editable.
> The drop-down selection part still operates.
>
> Ian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: salsaman [mailto:salsaman gmail com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 3:19 PM
> > To: Ian Puleston
> > Cc: gtk-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: Alternative to gtk_widget_set_sensitive on GetComboBoxEntry
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > gtk_editable_set_editable(GTK_EDITABLE(entry), FALSE);
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Salsaman.
> >
> > http://lives.sourceforge.net
> > https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/salsaman
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Ian Puleston
> > <ian underpressuredivers com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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