[Glade-users] Glade 3 COmbo Entry Boxes

[Alexey Kurochkin]

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:04 -0600, mstute wrote:
> I done a lot of research on this, including this lits but I have yet to
> find exactly how to add items to a GtkComboEntry box. I've heard that if
> you add an entry to them "Items" list it will use gtk_combo_box_new_text
> () to create the widget but this doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Anybody have code for it or a good tutorial? What's the best signal to
> ctach if you want to populate before it is displayed? realize?

Based on my experience, the most flexible way to do it is using a tree
model. The sequence would be like this:
1. create appropriate model, say with gtk_list_store_new ()
2. attach the model to the combo box with gtk_combo_box_set_model ()
3. tell the combo box which column to pull the data from with
gtk_combo_box_entry_set_text_column ()

You can populate and manipulate your model at any time then.