This ComboBox prints to the terminal when you change your selection.
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/* A window in the application */ class MyWindow : Gtk.ApplicationWindow { /* An instance array of linux distributions belonging to this window. */ string[] distros = {"Select distribution", "Fedora", "Mint", "Suse"}; /* This enum makes the code more readable when we refer to * the column as Column.DISTRO, instead of just 0. */ enum Column { DISTRO } /* Constructor */ internal MyWindow (MyApplication app) { Object (application: app, title: "Welcome to GNOME"); this.set_default_size (200, -1); this.border_width = 10; Gtk.ListStore liststore = new Gtk.ListStore (1, typeof (string)); for (int i = 0; i < distros.length; i++){ Gtk.TreeIter iter; liststore.append (out iter); liststore.set (iter, Column.DISTRO, distros[i]); } Gtk.ComboBox combobox = new Gtk.ComboBox.with_model (liststore); Gtk.CellRendererText cell = new Gtk.CellRendererText (); combobox.pack_start (cell, false); combobox.set_attributes (cell, "text", Column.DISTRO); /* Set the first item in the list to be selected (active). */ combobox.set_active (0); /* Connect the 'changed' signal of the combobox * to the signal handler (aka. callback function). */ combobox.changed.connect (this.item_changed); /* Add the combobox to this window */ this.add (combobox); combobox.show (); } /* Signal handler for the 'changed' signal of the combobox. */ void item_changed (Gtk.ComboBox combo) { if (combo.get_active () !=0) { print ("You chose " + distros [combo.get_active ()] +"\n"); } } } /* This is the application */ class MyApplication : Gtk.Application { /* Constructor */ internal MyApplication () { Object (application_id: "org.example.MyApplication"); } /* Override the activate signal of GLib.Application, * which is inherited by Gtk.Application. */ protected override void activate () { /* Create the window of this application * and show it. */ new MyWindow (this).show (); } } /* main creates and runs the application */ int main (string[] args) { return new MyApplication ().run (args); }
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