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