Re: Preventing overwrite mode in GtkEntry

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

Nickolai Dobrynin wrote:
> Paul,
>
> > But do you really need to do that?  Most users (AFAIK) never use
> > overwrite mode, but those who do will be confused with your application.
>
> It's the users who've demanded that feature.  The very nature of the application
> is odd.  It involves entering a lot of financial data in realtime.  This information
> is then be used to determine the price and quantity at which some financial items
> will be bought or sold.  At one point, we almost got burned because someone
> had accidentally hit "Insert", and wrong information was entered.  Granted,
> for a typical *office* app, you would never use tricks like that.

OK, then you do have a reason.  I hope my advices helped.  (In this case I'm
sure the user is to blame himself and not the app/whoevever developed it, but
I agree it is quite difficult for a developer to convince a user of it ;)

Paul