Re: Editable Label Widget
- From: Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews gawab com>
- To: ANDREW JAMES KRAUSE <ajk265 psu edu>
- Cc: gtk-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Editable Label Widget
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:19:32 +0200
What about GtkTextView? If it is in 'disabled' state, it will by
default grey out (and look much like a label). If you enable it,
you can edit text with it. This widget will also resize on editing
though, but you can wrap words and add a scrolled window.
--Hans
ANDREW JAMES KRAUSE schreef:
My problem with using a GtkEntry is that I need the label to be
multi-lined. I don't want to use GtkCellView because, when I edit
the text, it will resize the widget. It is possible to have hundreds
of these widgets in a column, so that would be a rendering mess.
I had originally used the idea of switching between a GtkLabel and
GtkEntry. There are a few problems with this. First, you still have the
resizing issues. The user can't see the whole text when it is in a
GtkEntry, so it will be difficult to edit longer texts. Also, you have to
keep two widgets around, which takes more memory.
I had created a very bad implementation of the GtkEditableLabel
widget that just resets the text on user input, but this is obviously
not the optimal solution. Plus, I am looking at creating something
that would be more versitile, and not depend directly on my
specific application.
Anyway, I'm leaning toward just creating a new widget so that I
don't have to deal with the selection info. This will allow me to reuse
some of the EelEditableLabel code. (BTW ... hello Ana!)
On Wed, 16 May 2007 14:39:19 -0700 Ana wrote:
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.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
gtk-list mailing list
gtk-list gnome org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]