Re: Removing entries from EntryCompletion

[Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey ratcliffe gmail com>]

Hi Eric,

On 14 February 2017 at 00:56,  <cecashon aol com> wrote:
> For this you need the private data of the entry completion to get it to
> work. That means looking around the GTK source and seeing how you might put
> something together. Of course, it is not recommended to use something that
> can be changed at anytime by the GTK developers. So... I gave it a try to
> see if it could be done. I got something working but it might very well
> interfere with other code.

Brilliant. Thanks for the proof of concept.

My application is written in Perl with Gtk2 bindings, so it looks as
though I have no chance of getting at the private data.

I'll open a wishlist bug and hope that the developers can provide an
API for this in a future release.

Regards

Jeff