gtk combobox with a model, retrieve the content of a cell

MBoerner · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:49 am **Posts:** 22

gtk-2.0
Hello!
I have a combobox that I made with a model, 2 columns, the first one contains text, the second one a icon.
I want to retrieve the text
I connected the change signal with cb_on_cboxChuck_changed()
My problem is to get the value of the text-cell of the active combobox items.
the function "gtk_combo_box_get_active_text" doesn't work, may be because there are two columns.

How could I get the value of the first column?
Thanks a lot for your help in advance
M.Boerner
callback of the changed signal

Code:

static gboolean cb_on_cboxChuck_changed(GtkComboBox *widget, gpointer  user_data)
{
   char *p_newChuckIcon;

   p_newChuckIcon = gtk_combo_box_get_active_text(widget);  //==>  doesn't work
   strcpy(recipe_editBuffer.header.chuck_type, p_newChuckIcon);

   return FALSE;
}

code to connect the changed signal:

Code:

g_signal_connect(rech_local.widgets.cboxChucks, "changed", G_CALLBACK ( cb_on_cboxChuck_changed), NULL);

code to make the model of the combobox:

Code:

static void set_up_cbo_chuckname(GtkWidget *combo)
 {
    GtkTreeViewColumn *col;
    GtkWidget *view;
    GtkListStore *liststore;
    GtkCellLayout *layout;
    GtkCellRenderer *renderer;

    /* Create a new GtkListStore with 1 string column and 1 pixbuf column... */

    liststore = gtk_list_store_new( 2, G_TYPE_STRING, GDK_TYPE_PIXBUF );
    rech_local.recipeNrModel = fill_cboChuck_model (liststore);
    /* ...and set it as the combo box's model */
    gtk_combo_box_set_model(GTK_COMBO_BOX(combo), GTK_TREE_MODEL(liststore));
    layout = GTK_CELL_LAYOUT(combo);

    /* text cell */
    view = gtk_tree_view_new();
    col = gtk_tree_view_column_new();
    gtk_tree_view_column_set_min_width  (col,100);
    gtk_tree_view_append_column(GTK_TREE_VIEW(view), col);

    renderer = gtk_cell_renderer_text_new();
    gtk_cell_layout_pack_start(layout, renderer,FALSE);
    gtk_cell_layout_set_attributes(GTK_CELL_LAYOUT(combo),renderer,"text",COL_CHUCKNAME,NULL);

    /* icon cell */
    view = gtk_tree_view_new();
    col = gtk_tree_view_column_new();
    gtk_tree_view_append_column(GTK_TREE_VIEW(view), col);

    renderer = gtk_cell_renderer_pixbuf_new();
    gtk_cell_layout_pack_start( GTK_CELL_LAYOUT(combo), renderer, FALSE );
    gtk_cell_layout_set_attributes( GTK_CELL_LAYOUT(combo), renderer, "pixbuf", COL_CHUCKICON, NULL );

    gtk_tree_selection_set_mode(gtk_tree_view_get_selection(GTK_TREE_VIEW(view)),GTK_SELECTION_NONE);
 }

I filled the combo box with the following command:

Code:

gtk_list_store_set(liststore,&toplevel,   0, name,     1,pixbuf,-1);// 1 coulmn is a nam, the second one is a picture

Paul Childs · **Posted:** Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:46 pm

From the documentation for gtk_combo_box_get_active_text:

Quote:

Note that you can only use this function with combo boxes constructed with gtk_combo_box_new_text() and with GtkComboBoxEntrys.

This function was done away with in gtk3 (likely for this reason, i.e. frequent buggy code) so it's something to avoid anyway.
An alternative (untested so you may have to play around a bit) is:

Code:

GtkTreeIter iter;
gchar* text=NULL;
GtkTreeModel* model=gtk_combo_box_get_model(combo_box);

if (gtk_combo_box_get_active_iter(combo_box, &iter)) gtk_tree_model_get(model, &iter, 0, &text, -1);

MBoerner · **Joined:** Fri Oct 26, 2012 10:49 am **Posts:** 22

works wonderful, thank you!

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