Re: misc. properties

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 10 Oct 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> > 	Also I'm somewhat concerned that GtkEntry doesn't have a
> > 'text' property; but it doesn't seem quite clear to me where to add it
> > - if at all. So; is this a feature ? should such a property be
> > registered against the GtkEditable interface ?
>
> We already have an "implicit property" for GtkEditable - the
> "editable" property. All GtkEditable implementors are supposed
> to implement that as well. "text" could be done the same way,
> but for now, I'd just add it as a property on GtkEntry. (The
> difference between these two approaches is admittedly small...)

Even having this as a write only property would be fine.  This would make
porting old glade files over to 2.0 easier.

James.

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