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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list mailing list > > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
