OK, i am using ruby-gnome2 to develop a gui app. I have a combobox that i create with Gtk.ComboBox.new this is so i can populate it with append_text() and prepend_text() my question is, i need to be able to set it to a certain value. like if I have a list of items that i have used to append text to this combo, apple, 0 orange, 1 pear, 2 grapes, 3 and another function selects say grapes, how do i set the combobox to show that selection automatically ? does this make sense? thanks for any help, sk