Re: Editable Label Widget

[Ana <christiana hipointcoffee com>]

Hi Andrew.  :)

I think making the GtkEntry look like a label is a good idea, but might
be more work than you'd expect.  It seems that whenever you mess with a
widget's appearance you have to worry about interfering with themes.
Who knows what other issues there might be.

Another idea might be to make a composite object, which subclasses from
a container (GtkBox), and works sort of like a modal editor.  (hehe.
I'm a vi user.)  You display either a GtkLabel or a GtkEntry depending
on the "mode."

- Ana


On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:00:10PM +0200, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
> Why not use a GtkEntry and make it look like a GtkLabel?
> You could also have a look at GtkCellView.
> 
> --Hans
> 
> 
> ANDREW JAMES KRAUSE schreef:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have an interest invested in an editable label 
> > widget because of an application I am working on. 
> > Because of this, I decided to work on the widget 
> > myself since the project seems to have been dropped 
> > from the list of priorities.
> >
> > On Bugzilla, there is an implementation that was
> > written in 2005, but it is not acceptable because it
> > uses more than the available signal padding slots
> > from GtkLabel.
> >
> > It is quite obvious that the way to go is to use the
> > GtkEditable interface in a new widget called something
> > like GtkEditableLabel. However, there are two different
> > approaches that I've come up with.
> >
> > One way to implement this widget would be to derive it
> > from GtkLabel. This would allow the widget to inherit
> > all of the code from GtkLabel, but may cause problems
> > because of hidden data and the fact that GtkLabel
> > already handles selections in a different way.
> >
> > The other option is to do what EelEditableLabel did 
> > and just derive from GtkMisc. This would add a little
> > extra baggage because of reimplementing a few of the
> > same features. However, I think this may be the better
> > way to go in terms of API and speed of the widget.
> >
> > Does anyone have any thoughts on this issue, in one
> > direction or the other?
> >
> > ---
> > Andrew Krause
> >
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