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GtkEntry — A single line text entry field

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How to make GtkTextView look like GtkEntry?

Or "How to add a visible (thin) border to GtkTextView"? Is it ever possible? Thank you in advance.
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How to capture Enter key press in GtkEntry

I am trying to capture the Enter key when it is pressed in a GtkEntry. Most of the resources I have found suggest connecting to the activate signal, but the documentation for GtkEntry states (emphasis mine): Applications should not connect to it,…
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Python Gtk.Entry placeholder text

i have a login-window with two gtk.Entry objects, one for username, one for password. How can i add some Ghosttext to the Entry, so there is written "Username" in the Entry but if you click inside the text dissapears.
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PyGTK Entry widget in TreeViewColumn header

How can I make a gtk.Entry widget focusable or editable within a gtk.TreeViewColumn header/title? I've tried this: # Create tree-view. treeview = gtk.TreeView() #... # Create column. renderer = gtk.CellRendererText() column =…
Uyghur Lives Matter
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Styling all GtkEntry widgets with CSS using Python3 PyGObject

I'm developing a GUI with PyGObject and am trying to style all the entry widgets. From this post I get the impression that I should be able to create a CSS style that would apply to all GtkEntry objects, but for some reason it's not working for me…
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find out which gtk widget has the current selection

I have a collection of GtkEntry widgets, some of which are editable and focusable, and some of which are not. I would like to find out which, if any, of them currently has text selected, in order to implement an Edit->Copy menu item. Is there any…
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How to select text in GtkEntry

i have dialog window with GtkEntry. I want to select all text in entry right after dialog window becomes visible to user. I tried this, but its not working, i see no selection: static void OnEntryShow(GtkWidget *entry, gpointer user_data) { …
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GTK+ (2.0) - signal "clicked" on GtkEntry?

I'm testing some signals with GTK+ 2.0. I'm looking for a way to get a signal emitted when I click on a GtkEntry. if (widgets_info[i].action & IG_INPUT) { widget->frame[i] = gtk_entry_new_with_max_length(MAX_INPUT_LENGTH); …
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tk entry background color change in readonly mode

Hi I have a requirement where i need to create table and the cells would be readonly. But along with readonly mode, the cells need to have colored background. Now with the given options, i tried doing something like below but with no luck. Since I…
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Differentiate gtk.Entry icons

I'm adding two icons to a gtk.Entry in PyGTK. The icons signals are handled by the following method def entry_icon_event(self, widget, position, event) I'm trying to differentiate between the two of them:
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GtkWindow can only contain one widget at a time

I am using this code to retrieve and display an image from the web: class Display(object): def __init__(self): self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL) self.window.connect('destroy', self.destroy) …
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How to set Placeholder text in Gtk.TextView

I have been using Gtk Entry till now which offers set_placeholder_text method to set a placeholder text in it however, looking in the documentation , I found no such method for TextView . Is there any way I can set placeholder text in Gtk Textview ?
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How to remove highlight from entry in pygtk?

i have a small GUI that i created, and when it fires up, the 'first' gtk.Entry that i have created is always highlighted (in a series of entries). essentially, here is how i create it: my_entry =…
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textEntry.Text output is Gtk.Entry (mono)

I try to get the text of an Entry with this code: this.myEntry.Text(); also I have tried: this.myEntry.Text.ToString(); this.myEntry.ToString(); But all what I get is Gtk.Entry and not the text from the Entry. How Can I fix this?
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Restrict the number of input characters in Tk entry widget

In TCL how can I restrict the number of input characters in an entry widget? I have a TCL field in which a user can enter some text, I wish to restrict the length of the text (e.g. not more than 30 characters). Are there any options for it?
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