From: Jonathan Hudson <jh+ruby-lang@...>
Date: 2007-03-06T05:20:07+09:00
Subject: Re: how to set gtk2 combo box entry place

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 05:11:13 +0900
"shawn bright" <nephish@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK,
> i am using ruby-gnome2 to develop a gui app.
> I have a combobox that i create with Gtk.ComboBox.new
> this is so i can populate it with append_text() and prepend_text()
> 
> my question is, i need to be able to set it to a certain value.
> like if I have a list of items that i have used to append text to this combo,
> apple, 0
> orange, 1
> pear, 2
> grapes, 3
> 
> and another function selects say grapes, how do i set the combobox to
> show that selection automatically ?
> 

widget.set_active(3)

or 

widget.active=3

(assuming 3 == grapes ...)

-jonathan