Hey Sean:
Since Gtk::ComboBoxText is descended from Gtk::ComboBox, you can use
"Gtk::ComboBox::get_active_row_number" which returns the index you seek.
Bob
Sean Kelley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am porting my Qt application to Gtkmm in order to learn more about
> Gtkmm. I am not particularly clear on how to get an index into my
> ComboBoxText. So if I have a combo box of a number of text items, in
> my case Irish Gaelic prepositions, how do get the index on a changed
> signal?
>
> //Child widgets:
> Gtk::ComboBoxText m_pronBox;
> Gtk::ComboBoxText m_prepBox;
>
> ....
>
> //Fill the combo:
> m_prepBox.append_text("ag");
> m_prepBox.append_text("ar");
> m_prepBox.append_text("as");
> m_prepBox.append_text("chun");
> ...
> //Connect signal handler:
> m_prepBox.signal_changed().connect( sigc::mem_fun(*this,
> &IrishPrep::on_combobox_changed) );
> ...
>
> All I can get from the combo box is the text selected. In Qt I had
> used a QtComboBox, where I could access the member function
> currentItem. I would rather have the actual index into it and not the
> string.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sean
>
>
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