Re: again a new snapshot of the GtkComboBox...

[Kristian Rietveld <kristian planet nl>]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Tim Janik wrote:

> i'm not so worried about your indentation, going once over the file with
> emacs will fix the indentation easily.
> rather, please put opening braces after a newline, i.e.:
> if (foo)
>   {
>     do stuff;
>   }
> instead of if (foo) {
> and please don't use inline assignments (haven't looked closely enough,
> so maybe you aren't using them), that is, do:
> foo = 5;
> if (foo)
> instead of
> if ((foo = 5))

Ok, I'll check.

> 
> > >     void       gtk_combo_box_text_remove_matches    (GtkComboBoxText   *cboxtext,
> > >                                                      const gchar       *pattern);
> > > 
> > > What is the motivation for this?
> > 
> > It was in the GtkClueHunter code, you can remove the matches of the given
> > pattern out of the list.
> 
> well, from looking at your code, you seem to miss one of the clue hunters
> most important features, i.e. is the user enters:
> 
> | *foo?baz* |
> if gtk_clue_hunter_set_pattern_matching (ch, TRUE); was called (defaults to
> TRUE as well), the clue hunter lists completions for you:
> 
> +---------------------+
> | abacus              |
> | barbara             |
> | barbarafoo1baz  <--------- highlit
> | customizedfoo       |
> | deltafoobaz         |
> | extrafoo2bazig  <--------- highlit
> | zacharias           |
> +---------------------+
> 
> basically, you just need to do your strcmp for pattern_matching==FALSE
> and use the pattern functions as in remove_matches for pattern_matching==TRUE.
> this and the tab-completion is what made clue-hunter shell-sytle alike,
> was the main motivation for its implementation and finally, produced
> its name ;)

Thanks for pointing me at this feature, I've got it implemented now.

	Kris

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