Re: missing ComboBox method

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Mar 21, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:

> My Gtk2::ComboBox objects seem to be missing the get_active_text 
> method.

sounds like you're not using gtk+ 2.6.x -- that method is new in gtk+ 
2.6.0.  here's the relevant code from GtkComboBox.xs in Gtk2 1.080:

  #if GTK_CHECK_VERSION (2, 6, 0)

  gchar_own * gtk_combo_box_get_active_text (GtkComboBox *combo_box);

  ...

it is rather trivial to implement; perhaps in the next stable series we 
could provide a fallback implementation for gtk+ < 2.6.


> If you're considering subclassing Gtk2::ComboBox to add this method, 
> be advised that you'll have another hoop to jump through:  
> Gtk2::ComboBox's new_text method doesn't do class inheritence 
> properly:

that's a gtk+ thing; gtk_combo_box_new_text() is a convenience function 
to create a GtkComboBox set up to do text entries.


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