Re: GnomeDateEdit replacement

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Sebastian Rittau <rittau math TU-Berlin DE> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:49:57PM -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 
> > I've been planning a rewrite of GnomeDateEdit for a while.  I've been
> > driven crazy by it's limitations.  The big feature I want is the ability
> > to have 'unknown' fields.  For example, I'd like to be able to just
> > specify 'January, 1932, or even just '1488'.  
> 
> So, how would you do this API-wise?

Dunno.  Something like:

  gnome_date_edit_set_required_fields()

with relevant fields '|'ed together.

> > I don't know what Owen thinks about accepting this for inclusion in
> > GTK+, but I'd love to see it.  Additionally, there's a new Combo widget
> > slated for landing in libegg.  We may want to look into using that as a
> > basis for writing it.
> 
> I obviously have to take a close look at libegg at some point.

It's just a prototype library.  It'd be a good place to put any code
that's worked on, though.

-Jonathan