Re: Removing entries from EntryCompletion

2017-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 14 February 2017 at 21:10, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > I'll open a wishlist bug and hope that the developers can provide an > API for this in a future release. Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778626 ___

Re: Removing entries from EntryCompletion

2017-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
Hi Eric, On 14 February 2017 at 00:56, wrote: > For this you need the private data of the entry completion to get it to > work. That means looking around the GTK source and seeing how you might put > something together. Of course, it is not recommended to use something that >

Re: Removing entries from EntryCompletion

2017-02-13 Thread Eric Cashon via gtk-app-devel-list
Hi Jeff, For this you need the private data of the entry completion to get it to work. That means looking around the GTK source and seeing how you might put something together. Of course, it is not recommended to use something that can be changed at anytime by the GTK developers. So... I gave

Re: Removing entries from EntryCompletion

2017-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 12 February 2017 at 17:48, Norbert de Jonge wrote: > As soon as you click anywhere outside the area with suggestions > (matching entries), the overview of suggestions disappears. This means > that users can never hover over a suggestion to highlight it and then > press

Re: Removing entries from EntryCompletion

2017-02-12 Thread Norbert de Jonge
> Is seems to me that the easiest way for the user to > indicate to the GUI that a particular suggestion > should be removed would be via the delete button > whilst that suggestion is highlighted. As soon as you click anywhere outside the area with suggestions (matching entries), the overview of

Removing entries from EntryCompletion

2017-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
In my application, I use an entry widget with completion, which gets appended to when the user adds new strings. So far, so vanilla. Users are asking for the possibility to remove strings from the list of suggestions. Is seems to me that the easiest way for the user to indicate to the GUI that a