Re: GtkEntry right aligned/justified (and Solution)

[Steffen Gutmann <gutmann ieee org>]

Hi Egon!

Egon Andersen wrote:

> > So, it seems their implementation isn't complete yet...
> Well, yours isn't complete either ;-)

I think, they were talking about scrolling and that the solution in 
59799 didn't cover it correctly.  I checked the scrolling in my version 
and seems to be ok.

> What is missing in 59799 is commented by Owen Taylor, something like 
> the g_return_if_fail and then the description of the functions should 
> be improved.

Yes, I agree.  Actually, the whole gtkentry.c could benefit from some 
more comments...

> The solution in 59799 give the possibility to have any alignment, not 
> just right, left and center as your proposal. 

This is something I want to discuss.  In principle I see no problem in 
making GtkEntry having any alignment (in [0;1]) and the solution would 
be straight-forward (given what I have now).  But is there any need in 
having an entry aligned other then left, center, or right?  For, a label 
I see that one might want to have it aligned with a value of 0.1 (so 
mainly left but also using little space on the left if available), but 
for a GtkEntry?  Would that make sense?  Editing a GtkEntry with an 
alignment of 0.1 might be a strange thing.  I only see left, center and 
right useful like in an text editor: most time you have text left 
aligned, for numbers you might choose right aligned, and for something 
pretty, you center it.

> Furthermore there must be made test-instructions. 

How about, if the entry example covers this?  A new choice-type field 
could be added to the example where the user can select the justification.

Best regards,

   Steffen