[Glade-users] Comboboxtext in Glade3

[balakkvj at dcs.shef.ac.uk (BalaKrishna Kolluru)]

2009/5/19 Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>

> Well, really there is no GtkComboBoxText, its just a convenience
> api in GtkComboBox that you can use... it basically just assumes
> a liststore with a single column of type G_TYPE_STRING and
> then the set_text append_text and all just go through the liststore
> api.
>
> There doesnt seem to be a point to making a builder construct
> that gives you a combobox as combobox_text(), since Glade should
> be able set it up in a way that you should only need to access the
> combo boxes liststore.

Fair enough.

> I think that Glade should by default create comboboxes with a new
> liststore with 1 string column and one text cell renderer then let the user
> build on that, would you agree this would make things less confusing ?

It does keep things simple. You know glade is such an integral part of gtk,
I assumed that all gtk functions/templates are accessible from glade.
As I could find GtkComboboxText in GTK and not in Glade, my query was just
to make sure if I am missing some link between the two.

> Cheers,
>        -Tristan
>
> Thanks
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