gtk_entry changes in 1.1.7 ...

["Matthew J. Francis" <asbel dial pipex com>]

Hi,

I see there have been some fairly major changes in the internals of
the entry widget since 1.1.6 . Unfortunately, this has rather borked
some of the hackery I was previously doing with it, and I'm somewhat
at a loss as to how to fix it. Perhaps someone can shed some light.

The program in question is an EDICT (Japanese->English electronic
dictionary) client, and one of the things I am trying to get it to do
is to self-process input into Kana so that it's useful for those
without Wnn/Canna and a Japanese locale. Up to 1.1.6, I could do this
by simply setting a jis font in the entry's style, and managing the
contents of the editable myself (filtering keypresses through a small
state machine to turn them into Kana). Naive and hackish perhaps, but
it did the job. Now, however, I can't seem to get any double-byte
characters whatsoever to display in the entry no matter what I try.
This is almost certainly due to my total non- understanding of the
changed code, but...

A snapshot that worked against CVS gtk at about the time of 1.1.5/6
is here:

  http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~u6mjf/gnomejdic-981208.tar.gz

It's built against Gnome, but doesn't yet use anything significantly
Gnome-specific. Probably 2 seconds work to make it gtk-only as it
stands.


Cheers,
-Matt.

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