How to get entry from entrycompletion
gtk3, python
Solution
The following variant of your code works for me.
# simplified example from the tutorial
import gtk
def on_match_selected(completion, treemodel, treeiter):
print treemodel[treeiter][completion.get_text_column()]
urls = [
'http://www.google.com',
'http://www.google.com/android',
'http://www.greatstuff.com',
'http://www.facebook.com',
]
liststore = gtk.ListStore(str)
for s in urls:
liststore.append([s])
completion = gtk.EntryCompletion()
completion.set_model(liststore)
completion.set_text_column(0)
completion.connect('match-selected', on_match_selected)
entry = gtk.Entry()
entry.set_completion(completion)
# boilerplate
window = gtk.Window()
window.add(entry)
window.connect('destroy', lambda w: gtk.main_quit())
window.show_all()
gtk.main()
Problem
I was looking at this post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2262200 and I have a very similar setup in the little thing I'm coding up. My question is, once the entrycompletion finishes, and the entry box has the url, how do I get that url from the completion into a variable? entry.get_text() doesn't seem to work, and everything else I try just seems to give me an object or address. Here is the quote from the above link if you don't feel like clicking. ``` # simplified example from the tutorial import gtk urls = [ 'http://www.google.com', 'http://www.google.com/android', 'http://www.greatstuff.com', 'http://www.facebook.com', ] liststore = gtk.ListStore(str) for s in urls: liststore.append([s]) completion = gtk.EntryCompletion() completion.set_model(liststore) completion.set_text_column(0) entry = gtk.Entry() entry.set_completion(completion) # boilerplate window = gtk.Window() window.add(entry) window.connect('destroy', lambda w: gtk.main_quit()) window.show_all() gtk.main() ```