Re: GtkEntry and "editing_done" signal

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 04:50, Florent Jugla wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to automatically change a field from a value edited in a
> GtkEdit widget. What I'm doing now is : make the Gtk signal
> "editing_done" active on the widget. But it doesn't seem to work, I
> never get my callback function called. Is there's something I missed,
> must I put a mask on the widget to make the "editing_done" signal work ?
> (I'm using glade-2)

::editing-done is for when an Entry is used embedded in a GtkTreeView;
it isn't useful for what you are trying to do.

GtkEntry doesn't really have any concept of being done with editing;
the ::changed signal tells you each time a change happens.

I suspect that we will eventually add some sort of concept of 
"finished editing", because it comes up quite a bit - e.g.,
 
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50276
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113561
 [...]

But right now, you have to either make changes instantly, or perhaps
trigger off of ::focus-out-event. (But there are a lot of traps
with ::focus-out-event, e.g.,the user can activate a button
without causing a ::focus-out-event by using a keyboard shortcut.)

Regards,
                                      Owen