Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And actually typing a path that begins with a slash really requires two > slashes. One to open the input box and then another slash to actually > begin the path. For paths beginning with ~ (something I use > frequently), I have to type /~ (or Ctr

Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-09 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Peter Eckersley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> No, you haven't. Just type the name of the file to open (or rather >> only the first letters of it). Then press Enter once. Do _not_ press >> Ctrl-L before you do this, just use typeahead as in any other list >> view. > > This fragment of a solut

Re: More on GTK usability

2006-03-09 Thread Toby
Peter Eckersley wrote: > control-u to blank the line, anyone? Put gtk-key-theme-name="Emacs" in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 I almost broke a bottle of champagne when I discovered this gem on a random webpage :-) > someone should really get around to building a new command line shell > that is GUI-fied and d

Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Torrie
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 09:23 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > You are using a rather old version of GTK+ then. I suggest that you > update before you continute to bash the file-chooser. A lot of > usability problems have been taken care of in recent versions. I am currently using 2.8.6 which behaves as

Re: Usability of the GTK+ 2 file open dialog

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Torrie
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 09:23 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > You are using a rather old version of GTK+ then. I suggest that you > update before you continute to bash the file-chooser. A lot of > usability problems have been taken care of in recent versions. I am wrong in my other post. 2.8 definitel

Non-editable GtkComboBoxEntry?

2006-03-09 Thread Murray Cumming
Is there any good way to make a GtkComboBoxEntry non-editable? Calling gtk_entry_set_editable() on the child GtkEntry isn't enough. The user can still change the contents of the GtkEntry by choosing something from the drop-down menu. Calling gtk_widget_set_sensitive() on the GtkComboBoxEntry isn'

Not understanding the principles of drawing areas and primitives etc...

2006-03-09 Thread Leo -
I want to be able to draw lines on a gtkDrawingArea, with a color the user selects (r,g,b), however I don't understand how I would do. The whole business with gdkGC's and gdcColors seems very alien. If somebody could point me to a tutorial (the scribble one isn't enough since that one doesn't use c

Re: Non-editable GtkComboBoxEntry?

2006-03-09 Thread Micah Carrick
Can you maybe return TRUE from some of the GtkWidget signals to prevent further handling... like the enter-event and grab-focus or something along those lines? I'm not sure what/when all those events do what they do. But just an idea. - Micah Murray Cumming wrote: Is there any good way to

Re: Not understanding the principles of drawing areas and primitives etc...

2006-03-09 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 19:39 +0100, Leo - wrote: > I want to be able to draw lines on a gtkDrawingArea, with a color the > user selects (r,g,b), > however I don't understand how I would do. > The whole business with gdkGC's and gdcColors seems very alien. If > somebody could > point me to a tutorial

Re: glib\guitls.h, atexit and the windows DDK

2006-03-09 Thread Rick Jones
You probably should build some helloworld type program that includes some typical DDK headers without actually using any DDK functionality, and includes , and just calls g_print("hello, dude\n") and see what happens... with some very kind guidance from Tor I was able to compile and run the foll

Wait until widget is shown

2006-03-09 Thread Micah Carrick
I have a function that will take some time to run.. actually, it forks out another process which can take up to say 4 seconds. I want to display a modal dialog during this time, or perhaps just a statusbar message. In any case, whatever I do does not show up until AFTER the process is finishe

Re: status of IO Channels on Windows?

2006-03-09 Thread Rick Jones
Tor Lillqvist wrote: Rick Jones writes: > I was wondering about the status of IO Channels under Windows - > specificially with respect to SOCKETs (the capitalization is > Windows', not mine :) I ask because: > Currently full support is available on UNIX platforms, support for > Windows is

Re: Wait until widget is shown

2006-03-09 Thread David Necas (Yeti)
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:03:25PM -0800, Micah Carrick wrote: > I have a function that will take some time to run.. actually, it forks > out another process which can take up to say 4 seconds. I want to > display a modal dialog during this time, or perhaps just a statusbar > message. In any c

Re: Wait until widget is shown

2006-03-09 Thread Micah Carrick
Yes, it is: gtk_main_iteration_do() (see also documentation of gtk_events_pending()). Yeti Hah! Perfect. I knew it. Thanks! :) - Micah ___ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list