you really are making this way more complicated than necessary, i think. all your problems will be solved if you: 1. simply make the title you want to be seen to be the first item in the list. 2. set this item to be the item on display any time you want to force the user to make a new selection. 3. have all your code understand that the first item is not an actual valid selection, i.e., all references to combo box list items start from a reference of 1. 4. error checking can simply take into account that the first item on the list is not valid and proceed forthwith. you've never really explained why it is so undesirable to implement it like this. this method works, i use it everywhere in my program. richard On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Moises <ammoises@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: programa no generate error if the user does not select an item. as you can see here. http://kronos2008.blogspot.com/ I need that comobobox show a initial message saying "Select a robot" As you can see, I select an item of comobox, the reason is that user know that would select, then I want that appear a initial message ?select a robot" in comobobox. ¡Todo sobre Amor y Sexo! La guía completa para tu vida en Mujer de Hoy. http://mx.mujer.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list