How do I get the string value contained in an EntryBuffer?

Question

I'm working on a GTK4 application in Rust but having difficulty understanding EntryBuffers. I cant seem to find a function that returns the contained text of an EntryBuffer. I've tried to_string(), but I always get a string containing "EntryBuffer" instead of the actual text inputted.

let input = Entry::new();
println!("input: {}", input.buffer().to_string()); // returns "EntryBuffer"

Answer 1

If you include the gtk4 prelude (use gtk4::prelude::*) then you will have EntryBufferExtManual in scope, which is implemented by EntryBuffer. This has a text() method that returns the contents of the buffer as a String.

println!("input: {}", input.buffer().text());