Re: Spin buttons and direction

[Jeff Shipman <shippy nmt edu>]

Well, considering I'm only using GTK+ 1.2.8,
I will have to come up with a kludge so I
can check the older value as there's no signal
that has this ability.

Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy nmt edu
Computer Science Major    ICQ: 1786493
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy

On 11 Jan 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

>
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
>
> > Jeff Shipman <shippy nmt edu> writes:
> > > I have a set of three spinbuttons that I use
> > > for a date. I've set it up so it takes special
> > > care for february and leap years, but I would
> > > also like to know whether the up or down arrow
> > > has been pressed. This way I know how to modify
> > > the value in the spinbutton. How can I do
> > > this?
> >
> > Presumably you can just see whether the new value is larger or smaller
> > than the old value?
> >
> > For dates, you definitely want to use the "input" and "output"
> > signals, look at testgtk.c in the GTK source distribution for a nice
> > example that lets you choose months January-December. For a long time
> > I didn't know about these two signals, they are a very useful feature.
>
> That's because they will be new for GTK+-2.0; the very first feature
> added to the 1.3 branch, in fact.
>
> Sun Feb 28 16:46:02 1999  Stefan Jeske  <stefan gtk org>
>
> 	* gtk/gtkspinbutton.[c,h] gtk/testgtk.c: Added two new signals to
> 	GtkSpinButton, "input" and "output", to make the output more flexible.
>  	The user has to provide a mapping between adjustment->value and the
>  	output string (and vice versa, if the spin button is editable).
> 	See testgtk for examples.
>
> Sat Feb 27 01:18:47 1999  Tim Janik  <timj gtk org>
>
> 	* ChangeLog: moved old ChangeLog to ChangeLog.pre-1-2, and started
> 	new one.
>
> 	* configure.in: set gtk+ version to 1.3.0.
>
> Regards,
>                                         Owen
>