Re: Preventing overwrite mode in GtkEntry

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Nickolai Dobrynin wrote: > Thanks for your input. It looks like the obvious way of getting around the > default signal handler for "toggle_overwrite" is by using > 'g_signal_connect_after'. This is *A* way of dealing with that. However, > is it possible to completely drop the default handler so

Re: Preventing overwrite mode in GtkEntry

2006-09-22 Thread Nickolai Dobrynin
Paul, Thanks for your input. It looks like the obvious way of getting around the default signal handler for "toggle_overwrite" is by using 'g_signal_connect_after'. This is *A* way of dealing with that. However, is it possible to completely drop the default handler so it wouldn't even be around

Re: Preventing overwrite mode in GtkEntry

2006-09-22 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Nickolai Dobrynin wrote: > Paul, > > > But do you really need to do that? Most users (AFAIK) never use > > overwrite mode, but those who do will be confused with your application. > > It's the users who've demanded that feature. The very nature of the > application > is odd. It involves enter

Re: Preventing overwrite mode in GtkEntry

2006-09-21 Thread Nickolai Dobrynin
Paul, But do you really need to do that? Most users (AFAIK) never use > overwrite mode, but those who do will be confused with your application. > It's the users who've demanded that feature. The very nature of the application is odd. It involves entering a lot of financial data in realtime.

Re: Preventing overwrite mode in GtkEntry

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Pogonyshev
Nickolai Dobrynin wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to make it so that the text that gets > typed into > the GtkEntry widget is always *inserted* into it and never replaces whatever > was previously > entered. In other words, is it possible to suppress the "Insert" key so > that the overw

Preventing overwrite mode in GtkEntry

2006-09-21 Thread Nickolai Dobrynin
I was wondering if there is a way to make it so that the text that gets typed into the GtkEntry widget is always *inserted* into it and never replaces whatever was previously entered. In other words, is it possible to suppress the "Insert" key so that the overwrite mode could never be entered into