# Gtk & Julia User Inputs/Signals

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-julia-user-inputs-signals/4942
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [July 19, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-julia-user-inputs-signals/4942 "2017-07-19T00:22:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Rae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c37758/32.png) [@Rae](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rae)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-julia-user-inputs-signals/4942/1 "2017-07-19T00:22:22Z")

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I am using Julia and Gtk to build a GUI, but have some trouble with callbacks and signals.

How do you get the user inputs from Entry Boxes & user selections from Combo boxes and input it into a function?

Many Thanks!

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### Author: ![tobias.knopp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tobias.knopp/32/7551_2.png) [@tobias.knopp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tobias.knopp)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2017, 5:30am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-julia-user-inputs-signals/4942/2 "2017-07-19T05:30:32Z")

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you can use the “low level” signal interface [https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Gtk.jl/blob/master/doc/more\_signals.md](https://github.com/JuliaGraphics/Gtk.jl/blob/master/doc/more_signals.md)

There the user\_data is always the last argument.

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### Author: ![tim.holy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tim.holy/32/52_2.png) [@tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tim.holy)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-julia-user-inputs-signals/4942/3 "2017-07-19T12:11:16Z")

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You may also consider [GtkReactive](https://juliagizmos.github.io/GtkReactive.jl/stable/).

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### Author: ![tobias.knopp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tobias.knopp/32/7551_2.png) [@tobias.knopp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tobias.knopp)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2017, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gtk-julia-user-inputs-signals/4942/4 "2017-07-19T16:40:00Z")

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Nice! Wasn’t aware off that.
