Re: misc. properties

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 2 Nov 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes: 
> > i haven't followed this thread too closely, and you guys should have 
> > changed the topic eons ago ;) but about notifies on buffer changes,
> > i wonder whether you couldn't simply coalesce those, e.g. by locking/
> > unlocking notifiaction around events?
> 
> Possibly - it's probably not worth extra complexity though, I'm
> probably just being paranoid - changing the buffer already results in
> "insert_text" and "changed" signals on the buffer and "invalidated" on
> the GtkTextLayout.
> 
> The "text" property just feels wrong to me, I think it's because it's
> a buffer op on the view - I don't know. I'm inclined to leave it alone
> and maybe add it in 2.2, unless you or Owen have strong feelings that
> it's a good idea. To do anything useful with the text view content in
> a GUI builder we'd need special-casing anyhow, and apps can always set
> up the widget programmatically.

not "strong". however, i remember firing up GLE's widget property editor
on an entry to figure or set the text for more than one frustrating time ;)
(i certainly wouldn't want to edit a text widget's text through a widget
property editor entry though ;)

> 
> Havoc
> 

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ciaoTJ