Today, we released libview 0.5.3, with some awesome new widgets, such as FieldEntry and IPEntry. A short while later we released 0.5.4, which was a small bug fix release. It’s a really cool release/set of releases, and I think people will find FieldEntry/IPEntry interesting, as I haven’t seen anything like that in the GTK+ world yet.
I spent the past hour writing some documentation on what exactly libview consists of, complete with screenshots. It’s available on the Widgets and Classes page on view.sf.net. I hope this is of interest to some people.
Assuming people are lazy, though, I’m posting screenshots of the new widgets below:
Hi Chipx86,
You will find something similar on my website :
http://copyleft.free.fr/gtkentrymask.php
Warning, ugly code!
I want to clean up gtkentrymask but before it’s necessary to define a nicer API.
This weekend, I will take a look at libview…
Wouldn’t it be better if each individual segment of the entry was a separate box?
Hi Anonymous Coward.
Actually, our original IPEntry was an HBox with four GtkEntries. I decided to rewrite it. I’ll give you a few reasons why the method of using multiple entries is problematic:
* Selection doesn’t work across fields.
* Additional accessibility work is needed.
* Copying and pasting is a massive pain.
* There are themeing issues under certain cases and themes.
* You have to handle a lot more GtkEditable work yourself, if you choose to support GtkEditable.
* It won’t Just Work under a TreeView. (I haven’t tested FieldEntry/IPEntry on a TreeView, but it should work.)
There’s a lot we get for free using a GtKEntry subclass. It’s a definite win for us, with no real downsides.
Hi all.
These are really, really important widgets (think about comercial aplications,
people use to write down extrange characters).
I wish to see these widgets inside gtk+-2.x release ASAP, and a python binding soon 😉
Thanks!, thanks!!