Re: Gtk2::ComboBox - setting value by string?

["John M. Burian" <john burian org>]

It doesn't fix the 'bug', such as it is, but a technique I use is to, as 
I'm adding values to the ListStore, create a hash that maps the strings 
back to the indicies of the ListStore, then add a reference to that hash 
to the ComboBox object.

$list = Gtk2::ListStore->new ("Glib::String");
map {
 $list->set ($iter = $list->append, 0, $_);
 $$href{$_} = $list->get_string_from_iter ($iter);
} (qw/Option1 Option2 Option3/);
$combobox = Gtk2::ComboBox->new_with_model ($list);
$combobox->{hash} = $href;

Then later, to set the value of the combobox using the string:

$combobox->set_active ($combobox->{hash}{'Option1'});


Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 11:29 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote:
>
>  
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> > IMHO there are *far* too many combo-related bugs in gtk+ :( Don't the
> > developers use combos?
> >    
>
> Keep in mind that most of the gtk+ developers are working on gtk+ in
> their spare time[1].  So, unless there's a good patch for the problem,
> you can't really demand much.
>
>