2017-06-19 0:11 GMT+03:00 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me>: > 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...
This would break existing applications relying on the old behavior. I think we should not to break things more; if anything a method could be added for returning utf8 text directly. But I believe the helper functions do their job just as well. > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
