Re: Signal when the content of a GtkEntry is changed

[Douglas Vechinski <douglas vechinski dynetics com>]

I've had a similar/relate question that I've been curious about for some
time.  This emits a signal evertime the contents is changed.
Unfortunately, taking action everytime it is changed may not be what is
desired.  What may be desired is when the changes are done.  Suppose the
entry contained a value like 9.8 and someone wants to change the value
to 12.2.  This might be done my backspacing, deleting all the characters
and then entering 12.2.  But the changed signal is emitted after every
character.  So that you would be acting on the value 9., 9, " ", 1, 12,
12., and finally 12.2.  Some values could be undesirable.  Plus the
update could take a time to perform.  Is there another type of signal
that could be used to know when it done.  My current method is to act
upon an activate signal which is sent when a <RETURN> is entered.  Is
there another more appropriate method?

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:53 +0200, David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:50:59PM +0200, Thym wrote:
> > I would like to know when the content of a GtkEntry is changed.
> > A signal certainly, but what's its name ?
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkEditable.html#GtkEditable-changed
>
> Yeti
>
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