Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What is the trick to getting a filter button to work

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 17:54:31 -0800
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:45:18PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> I am creating a filter button in the SMB Service Response Time dialog box.
> 
> However, I can't get it to update the filter text string right next to it.
> 
> Is there a trick? Here is what I am doing?
> 
>         static construct_args_t args = {
>           "Service Response Time Statistics Filter",
>           TRUE,
>           TRUE
>         };
> 
> 	...
> 
>         /* Filter button */
>         filter_bt = gtk_button_new_with_label("Filter:");
>         SIGNAL_CONNECT(filter_bt, "clicked", display_filter_construct_cb, 
> &args\);
>         gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(filter_box), filter_bt, FALSE, TRUE, 
> 0);
>         gtk_widget_show(filter_bt);

After creating the entry for the filter text string, did you associate
it with the filter button with

	OBJECT_SET_DATA(filter_bt, E_FILT_TE_PTR_KEY, filter_text_box);

If not, the filter button doesn't know what the text entry field is.