Re: Signal when the content of a GtkEntry is changed

[Bill Medland <billmedland mercuryspeed com>]

On August 16, 2005 11:13 am, Douglas Vechinski wrote:
> 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?

I guess that basically really equates to the whole issue of 
validation of a field.  The best reference I have found so far 
is the Bugzilla record for 50276

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50276

> 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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