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

["Vivien Malerba" <vmalerba gmail com>]

On 2/1/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> 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.

I did not pretend it was. I just gave the example of the text-entry
mask as a feature I'm about to add. For your specific need, maybe
another "option" will be necessary, but, if that is the case, adding
it will be a matter of writing the code as all the "glue code" to
declare the option will be there (with the test-entry mask option).

BTW, what is exactly your requirement regarding number presentation
(maybe I can code it all at once)?

Cheers,

Vivien