Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:50:07 GMT
Thanks, that solved my problem.
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 23:32:08 +0000, Andrew Taylor wrote:
> Claire wrote:
>
>> I'm using a GtkComboBoxEntry widget in my app and I'm trying to get the
>> text from it using gtk_entry_get_text() because the doucmentation says to
>> use GtkEntry functions on it. The problem I having is I'm not quite how to
>> cast it. I tried GTK_ENTRY, GTK_COMBO, and even GTK_ENTRY(GTK_COMBO()),
>> but no matter I get errors like this " invalid cast from
>> `GtkComboBoxEntry' to `GtkEntry'" when attempting to read the entry.
>
>
> The docs I have
> (http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/GtkComboBoxEntry.html) say
> to use GTK_ENTRY (GTK_BIN (combo_box_entry)->child).
>
> Note that GtkComboBoxEntry is not a descendant of GtkEntry, so you can't
> cast it to one. It is, however, a GtkBin container, which according to
> the docs, should contain a GtkEntry. So, as shown above, you need to
> downcast it to a GtkBin and grab the first child.
>
> You might also want to refer to the GTK+ object hierarchy:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.2/gtk/ch01.html