Marking up an input field is not the most common use-case - and is surely inputted by the app rather than the user normally?
I propose that ...text_get should return stripped markup and a new method markup_text_get returns the current stuff. That would cater for both use cases... Thanks, Andrew On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 at 22:00, Daniel Hirt <hirt.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Markup uses tags like "<color=#fff> hello </color>". > It is clear why it's essential to do "character escaping" like ">" > instead > of "<". Otherwise, if you feed "<" back to the entry widget, it will be > misinterpreted as a tag element. > As a side note, you can use "elm_entry_markup_to_utf8" helper to > strip-down the formatting and "un-escape" the characters so all becomes > a valid utf8 text. > > Hope that clears things up a bit. > > -- > Danny (herdsman) Hirt > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 11:18 PM, Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> > wrote: > > > Hi team, > > > > Netstar pointed out something to me today that I had completely missed > for > > ages - elm_entry assumes you are typing markup. Type "a>b" and text_get > > will return "a>b" - what is the reason for this? It seems completely > > crazy default behaviour. > > Is there any reason we can't turn this off by default but provide the > > markup filter in a way where it can be switched on as needed? > > > > Thanks, > > Andy > > -- > > http://andywilliams.me > > http://ajwillia.ms > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- http://andywilliams.me http://ajwillia.ms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
