Is there any existing mechanism for a GtkEntry to simply position the cursor at the end of the text when focused, rather than selecting its contents to be overwritten by the next key? It seems odd to have to add a signal handler to do something this basic, but I can't find anything in the properties.
Edit: The signal handler doesn't work; whatever I do the default behaviour gets triggered after my handler runs. Here's my gtkd code; note that I am appending some text in the focus-in-event handler, and the appended text gets selected as well:
class NoteView : Entry
{
this(string text) {
if (text) {
setText(text);
}
setEditable(true);
setCanFocus(true);
addOnFocusIn(delegate bool(GdkEventFocus* f, Widget w) {
// clear selection
selectRegion(0, 0);
// test to see whether the appended text gets selected too
appendText("hello");
setPosition(-1);
// don't let any other handlers run
return 1;
}, ConnectFlags.AFTER);
}
}
The addOnFocusIn method is in the gtkd Gtk.Widget api; it calls g_signal_connect_data internally, which should in theory be honouring the G_CONNECT_AFTER flag I'm passing it, but doesn't seem to be.
Edit2: Solved - the grab-focus handler was doing the text selection, and being handled after focus-in-event
Turns out GtkEntry was selecting the text on the grab-focus signal, not focus-in-event. Working code:
class NoteView : Entry
{
this(string text) {
if (text) {
setText(text);
}
setEditable(true);
setCanFocus(true);
setHasFrame(false);
addOnGrabFocus(delegate void(Widget w) {
selectRegion(0, 0);
setPosition(-1);
}, ConnectFlags.AFTER);
}
}
Can't find anything in the docs.
I guess they figured that diverging from the default behavior is that uncommon that they just let people do it with signals, rather than provide a property for it.
Consider creating a subclass of GtkEntry that exhibits the behavior you require.
Related
I'm trying to use text entry on maui to fire an event when completed. I have set the "Completed" event to a handler and it works correctly on windows. But on Android I have no joy, the event just isn't firing.
I realise there is a bug in Maui which is preventing this. But it looks like the problem was discovered in August? It's a fairly basic thing, well at least it appears to be on the face of things.
What is the best work around for this? The only thing I can think is by using the textchanged event instead of completed. This works correctly, but then i have to bodge it by doing this sort of thing:
if (entry1.Text.EndsWith("#"))
{
//Then string is complete, so need to fire correct event
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Complete String Detected");
}
This works and I can use it since I'm awaiting for input from a barcode scanner, so I can set the last terminating character to whatever I want. In this case I set it to a #. I can't figure out a way to detect the return key being pressed.
Thanks
Andrew
There is a similar issue on the github about the Entry.Completed and Entry.ReturnCommand not executed.
This comment shows the cause and the workaround about this problem.
detect the return key being pressed
In addition, I can't understand the problem. I have created a sample to test. The Entry.Completed event will call when I pressed the enter key. I don't kown the return key you mentioned is what. But you can use the IOnKeyListener for the android to detect any key being pressed.
Create a Listener class in the /Platform/Android:
public class MyKeyListener : Java.Lang.Object, IOnKeyListener
{
public bool OnKey(global::Android.Views.View v, [GeneratedEnum] Keycode keyCode, KeyEvent e)
{
var edittext = v as AppCompatEditText;
if (keyCode == Keycode.Enter && e.Action == KeyEventActions.Down )
//I used the Entry key as the example, you can use any other key you want to replace it.
{
edittext.ClearFocus();
edittext.SetBackgroundColor(Color.GreenYellow);
return true;
}
return false;
}
And in the page.xml:
<Entry Completed="Entry_Completed" x:Name="entry"/>
Set the listener to the entry by overriding the OnHandlerChanged() in the page.cs:
protected override void OnHandlerChanged()
{
base.OnHandlerChanged();
#if ANDROID
(entry.Handler.PlatformView as AndroidX.AppCompat.Widget.AppCompatEditText).SetOnKeyListener(new MauiAppTest.Platforms.Android.MyKeyListener());
#endif
}
You can also set the listener with the handler. Finally, you can try both the method above and the workaround in the issue on the github.
I'm trying to build an add-in with similar behaviour like the comment system.
I select a part of text.
Press a button in my add-in. A card is created that links to that text.
I do something else, like write text on a different position.
When I press the card in my add-in, I'd like to jump back to the selected text (in point 1).
I studied the API, documentation. And learned that I could do something like that with Bindings. A contentcontrol might also be an option, although I noticed that you can't connect and eventhandler (it's in beta). I might need an eventhandler to track changes later.
Create binding (step 2)
Office.context.document.bindings.addFromSelectionAsync(Office.BindingType.Text, { id: 'MyBinding' }, (asyncResult) => {
if (asyncResult.status == Office.AsyncResultStatus.Failed) {
console.log('Action failed. Error: ' + asyncResult.error.message);
} else {
console.log('Added new binding with id: ' + asyncResult.value.id);
}
});
Works. Then I click somewhere else in my document, to continue with step 4.
View binding (step 4).
So I click the card and what to jump back to that text binding, with the binding selected.
I figured there are multiple ways.
Method #1
Use the Office.select function below logs the text contents of the binding. However, it doesn't select that text in the document.
Office.select("bindings#MyBinding").getDataAsync(function (asyncResult) {
if (asyncResult.status == Office.AsyncResultStatus.Failed) {
}
else {
console.log(asyncResult.value);
}
});
Method #2
Use the GoToById function to jump to the binding.
Office.context.document.goToByIdAsync("MyBinding", Office.GoToType.Binding, function (asyncResult) {
let val = asyncResult.value;
console.log(val);
});
This shows like a blue like frame around the text that was previously selected and puts the cursor at the start.
I'd prefer that I don't see that frame (no idea if that's possible) and I would like to the text selected.
There is the Office.GoToByIdOptions interface that mentions:
In Word: Office.SelectionMode.Selected selects all content in the binding.
I don't understand how pass that option in the function call though and I can't find an example. Can I use this interface to get the selection?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/javascript/api/office/office.document?view=common-js-preview#office-office-document-gotobyidasync-member(1)
goToByIdAsync(id, goToType, options, callback)
If there are other ways to do this, I'd like to know that as well.
With some help I could figure it out. I learned that an Interface is just an object.
So in this case:
const options = {
selectionMode: Office.SelectionMode.Selected
};
Office.context.document.goToByIdAsync("MyBinding", Office.GoToType.Binding, options, function (asyncResult) {
console.log(asyncResult);
});
This gives the selected result.
Sure someone can provide a better answer than this, as it's unfamiliar territory for me, but...
When you create a Binding from the Selection in Word, you're going to get a Content Control anyway. So to avoid having something that looks like a content control with the blue box, you either have to modify the control's display or you have to find some other way to reference a region of your document. In the traditional Word Object model, you could use a bookmark, for example. But the office-js APIs do not seem very interested in them.
However, when you create a Binding, which is an Office object, you don't get immediate access to the Content Control's properties (since that's a Word object). So instead of creating the Binding then trying to modify the Content Control, you may be better off creating the Content Control then Binding to it.
Something like this:
async function markTarget() {
Word.run(async (context) => {
const cc = context.document.getSelection().insertContentControl();
// "Hidden" means you don't get the "Bounding Box"
// (blue box with Title), or the Start/End tag view
cc.appearance = "Hidden";
// Provide a Title so we have a Name to bind to
cc.title = "myCC";
// If you don't want users changing the content, you
// could uncomment the following line
//cc.cannotDelete = true;
return context.sync()
.then(
() => {
console.log("Content control inserted");
// Now create a binding using the named item
Office.context.document.bindings.addFromNamedItemAsync("myCC",
Office.BindingType.Text,
{ id: 'MyBinding' });
},
() => console.log("Content control insertion failed")
).then(
() => console.log("Added new binding"),
() => console.log("Binding creation failed")
)
});
}
So why not just create the ContentControl, name it, and then you should be able to select it later using its Title, right? Well, getting the "data" from a control is one thing. Actually selecting it doesn't seem straightforward in the API, whereas Selecting a Binding seems to be.
So this code is pretty similar to your approach, but adds the parameter to select the whole text. The syntax for that is really the same syntax as { id: 'MyBinding' } in the code you already have.
function selectTarget() {
Office.context.document.goToByIdAsync(
"MyBinding",
Office.GoToType.Binding,
{ selectionMode: Office.SelectionMode.Selected },
function(asyncResult) {
let val = asyncResult.value;
console.log(val);
}
);
}
Both the Binding and the ContentControl (and its Title) are persisted when you save/reopen the document. In this case, the Binding is persisted as a piece of XML that stores the type ("text"), name ("MyBinding") and a reference to the internal ID of the content control, which is a 32-bit number, although that is not immediately obvious when you look at the XML - in an example here, the Id Word stores for the ContentControl is -122165626, but "Office" stores the ID for the Binding as 4172801670, but that's because they are using the two different two's complement representations of the same number.
On the same window, I have 20 text views and I need to handle in only one callback the "changed" signal coming from the text buffers under them.
What is the best way to implement this? I mean, how to retrieve the text view widget concerned by the text change ?
I tried to pass the text view widget object itself on connect for the signal "changed" but it is not working. I also tried the same kind of implementation for buttons and it works perfectly for the "clicked" signal. Why isn't it working for text views with underlying text buffers?
The code for connect:
g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(gtk_text_view_get_buffer(GTK_TEXT_VIEW(WidgetSecret))), "changed", G_CALLBACK(on_SecretText_changed), WidgetSecret);
and the callback:
void on_SecretText_changed(GtkWidget *p)<
I found another way to make it work. First is to conform to Gtkmm only, and not to mix up Gtk and Gtkmm:
Gtk::TextView* pSecret[21];
Then, retrieve all objects from Glade:
for (int i=1; i<=20; i++) {
sprintf(Bidon, "tvCh%0d", i);
pBuilder->get_widget(Bidon, pSecret[i]);
}
Finally, use sigc::bind to transmit an integer:
int id = 1; // this is the Id to pass to callback for this TextView
pSecret[id]->get_buffer()->signal_changed().connect(sigc::bind<int>(sigc::ptr_fun(&on_SecretText_changed), id));
with the following callback:
void on_SecretText_changed(int id)
{
// id is retrieved and used here
}
It seems that if Find.Execute finds a result inside a ContentControl, it will cause the ContentControlOnEnter and ContentControlOnExit events to fire. It's particularly annoying because the exit event fires even if the selection is still in the content control, so any code which sets the states of buttons dependent upon a content control being active will appear to be in the incorrect state.
Given a document containing a single content control with the word "test", and the following code:
// In setup
Application.ActiveDocument.ContentControlOnEnter += ActiveDocument_ContentControlOnEnter;
private void ActiveDocument_ContentControlOnEnter(Word.ContentControl ContentControl)
{
var selRange = _Application.Selection.Range;
_logger.Debug(m => m("Selection: {0}-{1}", selRange.Start, selRange.End));
}
//Later in another method
var finder = _Application.ActiveDocument.Range().Find;
_logger.Debug("Find.Execute start");
finder.Execute("test);
_logger.Debug("Find.Execute end");
The following gets logged:
38137 [VSTA_Main] DEBUG - Find.Execute start
38141 [VSTA_Main] DEBUG - Selection: 1-5
38149 [VSTA_Main] DEBUG - Find.Execute end
We have a lot of code that handles ContentControlOnEnter and ContentControlOnExit events, and having the find operation cause them to be called is really causing problems!
Is there any way to use Find.Execute without having it trigger these events? Failing that, is there a good way to distinguish between the Find-triggered ones and the genuine user ones? I have tried using the time between the enter and exit events, but this is not reliable.
I had similar problems in Word, though it was about the Selection event. I tried many solutions, but only one helped. In your case, make a new field bool _skipEnterAndExitEvents and set it true before calling
finder.Execute("test) and false after calling. And in the enter and exit event handlers check this field, if the field is true then just skip. This solutions is not beautiful, looks like a hack, but other solutions are even uglier and don't really work.
I think I found a decent solution:
private bool _doIgnoreNextExit = false;
private void ActiveDocument_ContentControlOnEnter(Word.ContentControl ContentControl)
{
if (Application.Selection.Find.Found)
{
_logger.Debug("Ignoring CC enter event caused by Find operation");
_doIgnoreNextExit = true;
return;
}
// Do things
}
private void ActiveDocument_ContentControlOnExit(Word.ContentControl ContentControl)
{
if(_doIgnoreNextExit)
{
_logger.Debug("Ignoring fake exit");
_doIgnoreNextExit = false;
return;
}
// Do things
}
I am using a TableViewer with a content provider, label provider, a ICellModifier and TextCellEditors for each column.
How can I add arrow key navigation and cell editing when the user selects the cell? I would like this to be as natural a behavior as possible.
After looking at some of the online examples, there seems to be an old way (with a TableCursor) and a new way (TableCursor does not mix with CellEditors??).
Currently, my TableViewer without a cursor will scroll in the first column only. The underlying SWT table is showing cursor as null.
Is there a good example of TableViewer using CellEditors and cell navigation via keyboard?
Thanks!
I don't know if there is a good example. I use a cluster of custom code to get what I would consider to be basic table behaviors for my application working on top of TableViewer. (Note that we are still targetting 3.2.2 at this point, so maybe things have gotten better or have otherwise changed.) Some highlights:
I do setCellEditors() on my TableViewer.
On each CellEditor's control, I establish what I consider to be an appropriate TraverseListener. For example, for text cells:
cellEditor = new TextCellEditor(table, SWT.SINGLE | getAlignment());
cellEditor.getControl().addTraverseListener(new TraverseListener() {
public void keyTraversed(TraverseEvent e) {
switch (e.detail) {
case SWT.TRAVERSE_TAB_NEXT:
// edit next column
e.doit = true;
e.detail = SWT.TRAVERSE_NONE;
break;
case SWT.TRAVERSE_TAB_PREVIOUS:
// edit previous column
e.doit = true;
e.detail = SWT.TRAVERSE_NONE;
break;
case SWT.TRAVERSE_ARROW_NEXT:
// Differentiate arrow right from down (they both produce the same traversal #*$&#%^)
if (e.keyCode == SWT.ARROW_DOWN) {
// edit same column next row
e.doit = true;
e.detail = SWT.TRAVERSE_NONE;
}
break;
case SWT.TRAVERSE_ARROW_PREVIOUS:
// Differentiate arrow left from up (they both produce the same traversal #*$&#%^)
if (e.keyCode == SWT.ARROW_UP) {
// edit same column previous row
e.doit = true;
e.detail = SWT.TRAVERSE_NONE;
}
break;
}
}
});
(For drop-down table cells, I catch left and right arrow instead of up and down.)
I also add a TraverseListener to the TableViewer's control whose job it is to begin cell editing if someone hits "return" while an entire row is selected.
// This really just gets the traverse events for the TABLE itself. If there is an active cell editor, this doesn't see anything.
tableViewer.getControl().addTraverseListener(new TraverseListener() {
public void keyTraversed(TraverseEvent e) {
if (e.detail == SWT.TRAVERSE_RETURN) {
// edit first column of selected row
}
}
});
Now, how exactly I control the editing is another story. In my case, my whole TableViewer (and a representation of each column therein) is loosely wrapped up in a custom object with methods to do what the comments above say. The implementations of those methods ultimately end up calling tableViewer.editElement() and then checking tableViewer.isCellEditorActive() to see if the cell was actually editable (so we can skip to the next editable one if not).
I also found it useful to be able to programmatically "relinquish editing" (e.g. when tabbing out of the last cell in a row). Unfortunately the only way I could come up with to do that is a terrible hack determined to work with my particular version by spelunking through the source for things that would produce the desired "side effects":
private void relinquishEditing() {
// OMG this is the only way I could find to relinquish editing without aborting.
tableViewer.refresh("some element you don't have", false);
}
Sorry I can't give a more complete chunk of code, but really, I'd have to release a whole mini-project of stuff, and I'm not prepared to do that now. Hopefully this is enough of a "jumpstart" to get you going.
Here is what has worked for me:
TableViewerFocusCellManager focusCellManager = new TableViewerFocusCellManager(tableViewer,new FocusCellOwnerDrawHighlighter(tableViewer));
ColumnViewerEditorActivationStrategy actSupport = new ColumnViewerEditorActivationStrategy(tableViewer) {
protected boolean isEditorActivationEvent(ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent event) {
return event.eventType == ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.TRAVERSAL
|| event.eventType == ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.MOUSE_DOUBLE_CLICK_SELECTION
|| (event.eventType == ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.KEY_PRESSED && event.keyCode == SWT.CR)
|| event.eventType == ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.PROGRAMMATIC;
}
};
I can navigate in all directions with tab while editing, and arrow around when not in edit mode.
I got it working based on this JFace Snippet, but I had to copy a couple of related classes also:
org.eclipse.jface.snippets.viewers.TableCursor
org.eclipse.jface.snippets.viewers.CursorCellHighlighter
org.eclipse.jface.snippets.viewers.AbstractCellCursor
and I don't remember exactly where I found them. The is also a org.eclipse.swt.custom.TableCursor, but I couldn't get that to work.
Have a look at
Example of enabling Editor Activation on a Double Click.
The stuff between lines [ 110 - 128 ] add a ColumnViewerEditorActivationStrategy and TableViewerEditor. In my case the I wanted a single click to begin editing so i changed line 115 from:
ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.MOUSE_DOUBLE_CLICK_SELECTION
to ColumnViewerEditorActivationEvent.MOUSE_CLICK_SELECTION. After adding this to my TableViewer, the tab key would go from field to field with the editor enabled.