Re: Trigger a GtkEntryCompletion's popup

[Stefan Salewski <mail ssalewski de>]

On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 15:36 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Hi all. I have some GtkEntry widgets with a GtkEntryCompletion
> attached.
> I've set the minimum key length to 0, hoping this would make the
> completion's popup appear on focus in, but it doesn't. I have noticed
> that
> if I type something, then hit backspace, the popup appears. So I guess
> I
> can hook up some code on focus-in to simulate this - ie insert some
> text
> and delete it. Is there a cleaner way of doing it?

Maybe you want a

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkComboBox.html
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkComboBoxText.html

with active entry widget (has-entry = TRUE) ?

So you can select from a list of text or enter own text.