On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 14:12 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote: > On 2/1/07, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:55 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote: > > > > > As a matter of fact I was planning to add a way to specify a mask to > > > > > enter data (as for example like > > > > > http://gtkmaskedentry.sourceforge.net/), and other attributes such as > > > > > text max length; so if you can wait till next week (I probably won't > > > > > have the time to do it before), you'll have the framework in place to > > > > > add more format spec. > > > > > > > > Great. Are you sure that that will deal with the same problem as > > > > numerical representation, or just what formats may be entered? > > > > > > It's up to you to define what the attributes will be and what they > > > will do. The only constraint is that the GnomeDbDataEntry or > > > GtkCellRenderer used take a GValue as input and returns a GValue when > > > the data being displayed is modified. > > > > I'm not convinced that a text-entry mask can define how numbers should > > be represented, but I look forward to seeing this. Thanks for the work. > > I did not pretend it was. I just gave the example of the text-entry > mask as a feature I'm about to add. For your specific need, maybe > another "option" will be necessary, but, if that is the case, adding > it will be a matter of writing the code as all the "glue code" to > declare the option will be there (with the test-entry mask option). > > BTW, what is exactly your requirement regarding number presentation > (maybe I can code it all at once)?
It's hard to know exactly what people will need in general. To be open-ended I guess we need a printf-style format string. For me, Glom need these few options: http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Screenshots#Designing_the_Layout_-_Formatting (Note that we must do the correct thing for the locale. So a thousands separator would be a . in Germany, but a , in the UK, for instance. Likewise for the decimal place separator. Then the application coder does not need to worry about the locale.) That's described by this C++ object, which is fairly obvious: http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/glom/trunk/glom/libglom/data_structure/numeric_format.h?view=markup -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-db-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-db-list
