Re: Editable Label Widget

[Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema <hdnews@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why not use a GtkEntry and make it look like a GtkLabel?
You could also have a look at GtkCellView.

--Hans


ANDREW JAMES KRAUSE schreef:
> Hello All,
>
> I have an interest invested in an editable label 
> widget because of an application I am working on. 
> Because of this, I decided to work on the widget 
> myself since the project seems to have been dropped 
> from the list of priorities.
>
> On Bugzilla, there is an implementation that was
> written in 2005, but it is not acceptable because it
> uses more than the available signal padding slots
> from GtkLabel.
>
> It is quite obvious that the way to go is to use the
> GtkEditable interface in a new widget called something
> like GtkEditableLabel. However, there are two different
> approaches that I've come up with.
>
> One way to implement this widget would be to derive it
> from GtkLabel. This would allow the widget to inherit
> all of the code from GtkLabel, but may cause problems
> because of hidden data and the fact that GtkLabel
> already handles selections in a different way.
>
> The other option is to do what EelEditableLabel did 
> and just derive from GtkMisc. This would add a little
> extra baggage because of reimplementing a few of the
> same features. However, I think this may be the better
> way to go in terms of API and speed of the widget.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this issue, in one
> direction or the other?
>
> ---
> Andrew Krause
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