Re: How to search through all entries in a column in GtkList

[Vinod Joseph <diana vinod gmail com>]

Hi Gus


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:42:18 +0100, Gus Koppel
<gtk spamkiller bytechase cx> wrote:
> Vinod Joseph wrote:
>
> > Sorry for the confusion
>
> Yes, I'm afraid your description was confusing to some people.

$$$ Yes... i could not be explicit to discuss in clear

> > Anyways.....the major problem for design is with browsing password
> > entries stored as "ASTERISK" in GtkList..
> >
> > The problem is with password entry stored as *********
>
> I don't understand this. You have a GtkList with a column which only
> displays "**********"? Does that make sense? And you want to compare the
> input of a GtkEntry (masked with "*"s as well I think) against any of
> those rows?

$$$$ I have a column for password and obviously as name suggests..it
cannot be displayed..I have solved this problem by having a duplicate
entry private_password that does not have a column in the GtkList and
i compare with this private_pwd entry...

> Sorry, at this point I have just two, probably non-helpful hints for
> you: 1. you should probably use strcmp () instead of memcmp (), as
> possibly the size argument of your memcomp was incorrect.
>
> 2. if you write your loops not like this
>
> for ( i = 0; i <= my_list_store->len - 1 ; i++ )
>
> but like this
>
> for ( i = 0; i < my_list_store->len ; i++ )
>
> it's not only slightly shorter to write but also saves one or two
> machine instructions, hence is (very slightly) faster and shorter.


$$$ Yes..thank you. This code was initially i <= my_list_store->len
and i was just trying out different options...Experimental code..


Anyways, thank you for the suggestions. I have obtained the correct
output .. using goto statement..

just needed to avoid using goto .....


Thanks again

Vinod