On August 16, 2005 11:13 am, Douglas Vechinski wrote: > I've had a similar/relate question that I've been curious > about for some time. This emits a signal evertime the > contents is changed. Unfortunately, taking action everytime it > is changed may not be what is desired. What may be desired is > when the changes are done. Suppose the entry contained a > value like 9.8 and someone wants to change the value to 12.2. > This might be done my backspacing, deleting all the characters > and then entering 12.2. But the changed signal is emitted > after every character. So that you would be acting on the > value 9., 9, " ", 1, 12, 12., and finally 12.2. Some values > could be undesirable. Plus the update could take a time to > perform. Is there another type of signal that could be used > to know when it done. My current method is to act upon an > activate signal which is sent when a <RETURN> is entered. Is > there another more appropriate method?
I guess that basically really equates to the whole issue of validation of a field. The best reference I have found so far is the Bugzilla record for 50276 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50276 > > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:53 +0200, David Necas (Yeti) wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:50:59PM +0200, Thym wrote: > > > I would like to know when the content of a GtkEntry is > > > changed. A signal certainly, but what's its name ? > > > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkEditable.html# > >GtkEditable-changed > > > > Yeti > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list -- Bill Medland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://webhome.idirect.com/~kbmed _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
