[Fwd: Re: Feature request: Number of matches in Gtk::EntryCompletion]

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Feature request: Number of matches in Gtk::EntryCompletion
Date: 	Sat, 23 Apr 2005 01:10:47 +0000
From: 	rob page <page rob gmail com>
Reply-To: 	rob page <page rob gmail com>
To: 	Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>
CC: 	gtkmm-list gnome org
References: 	<d45uev$p9d$1 sea gmane org>



I think this should be directed at the gtk mailing list as gtkmm is
just a wrapper for that and isn't supposed to extend gtk

Rob.

On 4/20/05, Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com> wrote:
> You should really be able to figure out how many matches were found.
> This whole EntryCompletion class is a very nice thing, but its public
> API is very minimalistic, you have absolutely no means to get
> information about the possible completions.
>
> Something like get_n_matches() should really be part of its interface.
> It would return the size of the internal container holding the possible
> completions.
>
> It's useful, and trivial to implement.
>
> What do you think?
>
> --
> Matthias Kaeppler
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