[Glade-users] problem on GTK_combo_box_entry.

[Damon Chaplin]

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 15:42, SBBG wrote:
> Hello there,
>    I'm a rookie to Glade. I got some problem when I tried to deal with
> combo box entry.
>    I tried to lookup the widget like this line:
> 
> GtkWidget *Sex= lookup_widget( GTK_WIDGET(button), "comboboxSex" );
> 
>   It seems nothing went wrong in both compiling and excution.
> But when I tried to refer to the text by this line:
> 
> current.sex= gtk_entry_get_text ( GTK_ENTRY( GTK_COMBO(Sex)->entry ) );

You used GTK_COMBO() there, but it isn't a GtkCombo.

Try:

  current.sex= gtk_entry_get_text ( GTK_ENTRY( GTK_BIN(Sex)->child ) );

A GtkComboBoxEntry is a subclass of GtkBin, a container with one child.
For GtkComboBoxEntry, the child is a GtkEntry.

Damon