On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:56 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > Is there any way to make a GtkCellRendererText start editing, while also > specifying what text it should start with. > gtk_treeview_set_cursor_on_cell() can start the editing, but first it > puts the data from the tree model in the CellRenderer. > > I want to do this in my GtkCellRendererText::edited signal handler so > that I can ask the user to edit the text again until it passes > validation. I'd like the user to start the second editing with the bad > text from the first edit, without ever putting the bad text in the > model. > > I tried doing some of what gtk_treeview_set_cursor_on_cell() does, > including the strange cell_background, and cell_area stuff, but I'm not > sure what to pass for the widget parameter of > gtk_cell_renderer_start_editing(): > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkCellRenderer.html#gtk- > cell-renderer-start-editing > > gtk_treeview_set_cursor_on_cell() seems to eventually get that widget > from the private gtk_tree_view_column_cell_process_action() function, > but I'm lost there. > You can use the GtkCellRenderer::editing-started signal which was introduced exactly to allow such setup to happen on the editable. Matthias _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
