RE: Limiting the number of characters

["Sailaxmi korada " <sai korada xilinx com>]

Thanks Nate,
 I was actually using the same technique and as I'm a new bee to GTK,
thought there could be some elegant way to do this. Thanks for taking the
pain to explain me.

Regards,
Sai Laxmi

-----Original Message-----
From: blythe2 tcnj edu [mailto:blythe2 tcnj edu] 
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 6:41 PM
To: Sailaxmi korada
Subject: Re: Limiting the number of characters

Looking at the API, it seems that no function is available to do this. 
GtkEntry has a function to limit the number of characters allowed, but
editable cells don't seem to have this.

As a cheap hack, however, you could attach a function to the "edited"
signal (or whatever it's name is) of the cell, and then count the number
of characters.  If it's over 4, you could just trim it down, or display an
error, etc..  Not quite as nice, but I don't see a function to do it
otherwise.  (Of course, I could be wrong)

Hope that helps!

-Nate


> Hi Folks,
>
>   Can anybody pl. help me of how to limit the number of characters that
> can
> be entered in an editable cell of List Store. I want to restrict the user
> to
> enter a hex value in 0x%4x format (total 6 characters).
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help in advance
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Sai korada
>
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