Hi Kristof, I wanna know how to use this widget (gtkentrycompletion) . Do you have a mini-tutorial or an website ?! thanks in advance .. Kristof Vansant wrote: >I'm using gtkentrycompletion in combination with gtkComboxEntry. >A list contains all user names on the system. > >Now what I want is that when a user types something and it is not in the list. The user gets an error or the gtkComboxEntry gets a different color. Like you have in firefox when you type part of a word and no match is found. >So if lupus and lupin are the only items in the list. >and the user types lupa then after pressing a the user gets an error or something. So that he sees that he is typing something impossible. >What is the best way to do this? I'm using gtk 2.4 at the moment. But if it is really necessary I can use 2.5/2.6 >I would be very thankful if someone could help me. -- Antônio Gomes Computer Science - Amazonas Federal University - VoIP Lab Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia - Embedded Linux Lab AM - Brazil -- Antônio Gomes Computer Science - Amazonas Federal University - VoIP Lab Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia - Embedded Linux Lab AM - Brazil _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list