Re: ANNOUNCE: gtkentrymask - gtkentry with masks and types

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Santiago Capel <bluefish ono com> writes:
> Hello, I am proud to announce a new gtk entry widget that allows to add
> type and mask (with internationalization, I hope ;-) ) to gtkentry. It
> is at:
>
> http://gtkentrymask.sourceforge.net

This looks like a useful widget, it may even work in to the validation
feature for GtkEntry. See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50276.  We also need to
research APIs for this in Java/Swing, Qt, and System.WinForms from the
.NET platform to see what ideas can be gathered.

> This is one of the several extended widgets that I plan to make. The
> package is called gtkwidgexts.

It's important to use your own namespace for your package, rather than
the GTK namespace. i.e. call the widgets FooEntryMask,
foo_entry_mask_new(), etc. - obviously replace "foo" with a better name.
Using GTK's namespace causes problems with symbol collisions.

Havoc