Method

GioSettingsget_string

since: 2.26

Declaration 

gchar*
g_settings_get_string (
  GSettings* settings,
  const gchar* key
)

Description

Gets the value that is stored at key in settings.

A convenience variant of g_settings_get() for strings.

It is a programmer error to give a key that isn’t specified as having a string type in the schema for settings.

Available since: 2.26

Parameters

key

Type: const gchar*

The key to get the value for.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Return value

Type: gchar*

A newly-allocated string.

The caller of the method takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.