Re: [gnome-db] Formatting numbers in Form/Grid

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:55 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> > > As a matter of fact I was planning to add a way to specify a mask to
> > > enter data (as for example like
> > > http://gtkmaskedentry.sourceforge.net/), and other attributes such as
> > > text max length; so if you can wait till next week (I probably won't
> > > have the time to do it before), you'll have the framework in place to
> > > add more format spec.
> >
> > Great. Are you sure that that will deal with the same problem as
> > numerical representation, or just what formats may be entered?
> 
> It's up to you to define what the attributes will be and what they
> will do. The only constraint is that the GnomeDbDataEntry or
> GtkCellRenderer used take a GValue as input and returns a GValue when
> the data being displayed is modified.

I'm not convinced that a text-entry mask can define how numbers should
be represented, but I look forward to seeing this. Thanks for the work.

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