Re: signal emitted when CLICKING on a combo box

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 07:51 +0100, Carmen Alfaro wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>   I am writting my first application using gtkmm2.2 ( restricted to this
> version because is a school project ).
> 
>   I would like to know if someone out there could tell me which is the signal
> emitted when I click on the arrow ( the button to the right of the text entry
> with the arrow icon ) of a combo box. I need to catch this signal so that
> I can query for some data, populate the popdown strings and show the user
> the up-to-date data.
> 
>   While searching throw this forum I learned how to catch a signal when the
> text entry value has changed, but this is not what I need. I need to catch
> the signal before the dropdown list is shown, namely because I need to update
> that list before showing it.
> 
>   Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance.

This is a known problem:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162531

But maybe there is some workaround.

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