How to add list items with combobox or comboboxentry

Asked by selvamani

i am playing with quickly and glade. could you tell me how to add list items into comboboxentry or combobox. If you give the code snippets, it would be grateful.

Thank You,

With regards,

Selvamani.

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Best Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) said :
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You can do this with Glade. Once you do it, it makes sense, but it is not terribly discoverable unless you have a good detailed knowledge of using Gtk.

For a comboboxentry:
1. Select the comboboxentry
2. Go to the General tab in the properties pan
3. Under ComboBox model, click the builder button "..."
You will see the "Choose a GTKTreeModel in the project" dialog. In this dialog:
4. Click New
A liststore will be added to you project. It will be in the tree view in the inspector under "objects" and called liststore1.
5. Select listore1
6. Select the general tab
7. Under Add and Remove Columns, make a Column of type gchararry, with whatever name you like, "Title" for instance.
8. Under "Add and remove rows" click the + sign
9. In the created row, type in the string that you want.
10. Repeat 8 and 9 until you have all the strings that you want
11. Select your combo again
12. Change the Text Column property 0 (zero)

Run your app, and you see the list you added.

Cheers, Rick

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Rick Spencer (rick-rickspencer3) said :
#2

And if you just want to do it in code, you can see here:
http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?req=show&file=faq14.013.htp

The pygtk faq is very useful and full of good snippets.

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selvamani (selvamani) said :
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I am grateful to you Mr. Rick Spencer. It is working properly when i tried to do the things whatever input you gave. In my project, i require the back end database couchDB to store all the data which i am getting from the widgets. Can you tell me how to store the data given in the widget. I would be thankful if you would give the required snippets for linking the widget to CouchDB.

With Regards,

Selvamani. S

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> Rick Spencer proposed the following answer:
> You can do this with Glade. Once you do it, it makes sense,
> but it is
> not terribly discoverable unless you have a good detailed
> knowledge of
> using Gtk.
>
> For a comboboxentry:
> 1. Select the comboboxentry
> 2. Go to the General tab in the properties pan
> 3. Under ComboBox model, click the builder button "..."
> You will see the "Choose a GTKTreeModel in the project"
> dialog. In this dialog:
> 4. Click New
> A liststore will be added to you project. It will be in the
> tree view in the inspector under "objects" and called
> liststore1.
> 5. Select listore1
> 6. Select the general tab
> 7. Under Add and Remove Columns, make a Column of type
> gchararry, with whatever name you like, "Title" for
> instance.
> 8. Under "Add and remove rows" click the + sign
> 9. In the created row, type in the string that you want.
> 10. Repeat 8 and 9 until you have all the strings that you
> want
> 11. Select your combo again
> 12. Change the Text Column property 0 (zero)
>
> Run your app, and you see the list you added.
>
> Cheers, Rick
>
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selvamani (selvamani) said :
#4

I am grateful to you Mr. Rick Spencer. It is working properly when i
tried to do the things whatever input you gave. In my project, i require
the back end database couchDB to store all the data which i am getting
from the widgets. Can you tell me how to store the data given in the
widget. I would be thankful if you would give the required snippets for
linking the widget to CouchDB.

Thinking,

Selvamani

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E. E. Perry (elmerp) said :
#5

If I do the above with a combo box, I get a error when I try to save it in glade. Changing the text column property seems to be the problem. If I set it to anything other than -1, it gives an error when trying to save. Any ideas?