Re: Constrained text entry

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50276

> 1) explain why my code example at the twice cited URL does not grab focus correctly.  (the version I tested this against was
> somewhat old- 1.2.7 on MS win32)
> 
> 2) tell me when any such changes might show up in a release, given
> that I manifest the behavior I am talking about in (standalone)
> code.  What if I patch GTK myself?

I would suggest that you proceed by:

 - developing a detailed UI spec for how it should behave, citing 
   behavior on Windows, Qt, Swing, if appropriate

 - propose an API for it, again citing how those toolkits work

 - attach this info to bug #50276, and also post a proposal to
   gtk-devel-list for comment

 - as comments are given roll them back in to the proposal 
   (i.e. maintain the draft proposal)

That's the bulk of the work. Actually doing the coding would be
appreciated, but probably the coding is pretty trivial, the real
reason this feature is currently on the "future" milestone is the
design/spec phase.

Havoc