Re: Re: Editable Label Widget

["ANDREW JAMES KRAUSE" <ajk265 psu edu>]

My problem with using a GtkEntry is that I need the label to be
multi-lined. I don't want to use GtkCellView because, when I edit
the text, it will resize the widget. It is possible to have hundreds
of
these widgets in a column, so that would be a rendering mess.

I had
originally used the idea of switching between a GtkLabel and
GtkEntry.
There are a few problems with this. First, you still have the
resizing
issues. The user can't see the whole text when it is in a
GtkEntry, so
it will be difficult to edit longer texts. Also, you have to
keep two
widgets around, which takes more memory.

I had created a very bad
implementation of the GtkEditableLabel
widget that just resets the text on
user input, but this is obviously
not the optimal solution. Plus, I am
looking at creating something
that would be more versitile, and not depend
directly on my 
specific application.

Anyway, I'm leaning
toward just creating a new widget so that I
don't have to deal with
the selection info. This will allow me to reuse
some of the
EelEditableLabel code. (BTW ... hello Ana!)


On Wed, 16 May
2007 14:39:19 -0700  Ana  wrote:
> I think making the GtkEntry look like a label is a good idea, but
> might
> be more work than you'd expect.  It seems that whenever you mess
> with a
> widget's appearance you have to worry about interfering with
> themes.
> Who knows what other issues there might be.
>
> Another
> idea might be to make a composite object, which subclasses from
> a
> container (GtkBox), and works sort of like a modal editor.  (hehe.
> I'm
> a vi user.)  You display either a GtkLabel or a GtkEntry depending
> on the
> "mode."
>
> - Ana
>
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at
> 07:00:10PM +0200, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
> > Why not use a
> GtkEntry and make it look like a GtkLabel?
> > You could also have a look
> at GtkCellView.