Re: [gtk-list] Re: Modifieng Text without raising a signal

[Andreas Leitner <leitner eiffel com>]

"K. M. Hawarden-Ogata" wrote:
> 
> block the signal, change the text, unblock the signal
> 
> the above should do it, though I think you need to block each signal that
> you connected. I don't think (I may be wrong) there is a way to block all
> signals.

I see, but I have to be careful not to block those signal handlers that
actually modify the text. I only need to block those handlers that are
added by my application. A bit tricky but I think I can get it to work.

What would be nice after all, would be a second sort of signal for
GtkEditable that is only emitted when the (runtime-)user modifies a
text. S.th. like:

signal: "user_insert_text"
void gtk_editable_user_insert_text (...)

The function gtk_editable_user_insert_text should be used by the widget
itself whenever the user inserts text, and it is available to the
application-programmer for simulating user input (in case of say s.th.
like a playback of a Word-like macro).

If such functionality would be present, I would only connect to the
"user_*' hierarchy of signals and would not need to do any tricky block
operations.

anyway thanks alot for your solution - it helped me a lot,
Andreas