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

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:45 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I suppose you could also modify one of the GnomeDbEntryDate for dates
> (or GnomeDbEntryTime for time, ...) for example to add some format
> specification, and then one could set that format as with any other
> plugin (exactly in the same way). This could also be applied to the
> GnomeDbEntryString (for numbers and strings).
> 
> 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?

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