GtkDialog - tips

[wiak]

Fixes for gtkdialog vte functionality discussed in last few posts of thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 79#1060379

wiak

[don570]

Posted: Tue 28 Apr 2020, 06:00 Post subject: Hbox alignment


Hey, does someone know how to align a a hbox on the left and not at the right of a window

best way is to put an empty text widget on right side to force another widget to left

In this script --> text widget is forced to left of window

[BarryK]

Hi guys,
I received feedback from a Linux Mint user, running my EasyDD script, with gtkdialog installed.

EasyDD is for writing an OS image file to a drive, usually a USB-stick. The GUI allows drag-and-drop off the image file.

However, in Linux Mint, Cinnamon, running the Nemo file manager, drag-and-drop preppends "file://" and appends what looks like a utf8 character "000A". This what we see in the box, see attached.

Does anyone know if gtkdialog 'entry' tag can be configured not to show that preppended and appended stuff?

[MochiMoppel]

Does anyone know if gtkdialog 'entry' tag can be configured not to show that preppended and appended stuff?

You can avoid the "appended stuff", a line feed character, by using the tag attribute truncate-multiline="true". This restricts input to a single line. By default entry widgets accept multiline input (usually achieved by pasting, hardly possible by keyboard input), resulting in those hex 0A "box" characters.

As for the prepended stuff you could use some input verification code if you want to remove the prepended "file://". Maybe this can help.

[BarryK]

Does anyone know if gtkdialog 'entry' tag can be configured not to show that preppended and appended stuff?

You can avoid the "appended stuff", a line feed character, by using the tag attribute truncate-multiline="true". This restricts input to a single line. By default entry widgets accept multiline input (usually achieved by pasting, hardly possible by keyboard input), resulting in those hex 0A "box" characters.

As for the prepended stuff you could use some input verification code if you want to remove the prepended "file://". Maybe this can help.

Thanks for that! I have fixed EasyDD:

https://bkhome.org/news/202006/easydd-g ... -mint.html