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

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 19:35 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
[snip]
> So for your specific problem, I suggest you write a GnomeDbDataEntry
> and a GtkCellRenderer which display dates in the way you want. Also if
> you want and if the plugin you write could be usefull to others, we
> could include it into the libgnomedb's sources.
> 

Couldn't we just extend the existing widgets? They must do some kind of
sprintf() at the moment, so we could just provide API to allow you to
specify a different sprintf format. Or maybe a cell_data_func callback.

I would prefer a more meaningful way to define formatting, which would
be used for interpretation too, but that can be added in a future
version. For instance, Glom has this simple data structure:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/glom/trunk/glom/libglom/data_structure/numeric_format.h?rev=845&view=markup

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