If anybody is interested i found nice tips about Ctree at http://home2.highway.ne.jp/mutoh/tips/ctree.html it also helped to sot out my problem Jacek Podkanski wrote: > Hi, > How do i get text from a CTree node? Following code shows my present > understanding of Gtk Reference > > > tree.signal_connect("select-row") {|ctree,node,column,user_data| > print ctree,' ',node,' ',column,' ',user_data,"**\n" > w=ctree.node_get_text(ctree.node_nth(node),column) > print w.inspect,"\n" > } > > -- Jacek Podkanski