# Entry (Vala)

Tiffany Antopolski
tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com 2012
A single line text entry field
Anders Jonsson
anders.jonsson@norsjovallen.se 2018

# Entry

This application greets you in the terminal.

/* A window in the application. */ class MyWindow : Gtk.ApplicationWindow {

/* Constructor */ internal MyWindow (MyApplication app) { Object (application: app, title: "What is your name?");

var name_box = new Gtk.Entry ();

/* Connect to the signal handler. */ name_box.activate.connect (this.on_activate); name_box.show ();

this.set_default_size (300, 100); this.border_width = 10;

/* Add the name_box to this window. */ this.add (name_box); }

/* Signal handler (aka. callback function) for the 'activate' * signal of a Gtk.Entry. */ void on_activate (Gtk.Entry entry) { name = entry.get_text (); print ("\nHello " + name + "!\n\n"); } }

/* This is the application. */ class MyApplication : Gtk.Application {

/* Constructor for the application. */ internal MyApplication () { Object (application_id: "org.example.MyApplication"); }

/* Override the 'activate' signal of GLib.Application. */ protected override void activate () {

/* Create a new window for this application * and show it. */ new MyWindow (this).show (); }

}

/* The main function creates and runs the application. */ int main (string[] args) { return new MyApplication ().run (args); }

In this sample we used the following:

Gtk.Entry