Re: [gnome-db] New widget: gnome-db-find?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 21:29 -0300, Gustavo R. Montesino wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:48:44PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 12:27 -0300, Gustavo R. Montesino wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > On a project that I'm developing, I've found the need to a simple,
> > > convenience widget to show a dialog to the user, that lets him/her
> > > choose a field (in a combo) and enter some search string/pattern. 
> > > 
> > > I would be glad to contribute such widget to libgnomedb and maintain it
> > > in the future if there is interest.
> > > 
> > thanks, that sounds pretty good. Could you send it the files to the list
> > with a test program, please?
> > 
> 
> I've finally managed to make the widget; please see the attached file. I
> didn't develop a test program (yet), but besides that the patch is
> fairly complete, with gtk-doc, i18n, and a changelog entry. It also
> has an copy-and-paste glade support, but I didn't test it, and don't
> know if it actually works...
> 
cool, I'm about to commit your patch to CVS HEAD, I just fixed some code
formatting issues. Sorry for the huge delay :-)

> The widget uses the GtkComboBoxEntry, and so needs the Gtk+ 2.4. I think it
> would be possible to add somo conditionals and make it compile and run with
> GtkCombo from 2.2 also, but didn't look deeper at it. Would that be
> needed/desirable? (I've patched configure.in to check for GTK+ 2.4)
> 
yes, please, could you provide another patch for that?

> About the test program, would a quick proof-of-concept application be
> better, or should I take a look at mergeant and see if I can add some
> search capability for it?
> 
a quick test in libgnomedb/testing will do it.

Thanks very much for the patch

cheers