[gtk-server] Re: Glade & comboboxes

Hi,
The Combobox widget is a complicated widget, for which you cannot set all properties using Glade. Therefore it is inevitable to set some properties in the client program. It is similar to setting up a list widget.
If the combobox is embedded in a Glade file, probably you have to do it like this: 

1) Create Glade file with combobox
2) In your client program, create a treemodel with 1 column (compliant with current definition in configfile): 

model = gtk_list_store_new(1, "G_TYPE_STRING")

Instead of "G_TYPE_STRING" you can also use the value '64'.

3) Set the combobox to this model:

gtk_combo_box_set_model (combox, model)

4) Populate the model:

iter = gtk_server_opaque()
gtk_list_store_append(model, iter)
gtk_list_store_set(model, iter, 0, "My data", -1)
gtk_list_store_append(model, iter)
gtk_list_store_set(model, iter, 0, "More data", -1)
gtk_list_store_append(model, iter)
gtk_list_store_set(model, iter, 0, "Other data", -1)

...and so on.

5) Show widget
The calls 'gtk_combo_box_append_text ()' etc. only work when you have created the combobox in the client program with 'gtk_combo_box_new_text()'. 

Please let me know if this works for you,
Peter

Quoting Erik Winkels <euqirea@xxxxxxxxx>:


Hello,
Does anyone have experience using comboboxes created with Glade and using them through gtk-server? If so, could you paste a short example?
I've created an interface in Glade and it can set and get values from normal entries but if I do a gtk_entry_set_text on the combobox nothing happens. Same for gtk_combo_box_append_text.
I'm going to try creating the box directly from code like in some of the example on gtk-server.org, but I would prefer the Glade approach to work. 


Erik




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