[Gpephone-devel] Ptim success

[Nils Faerber]

YU Yijun RD-ILAB-PEK schrieb:
> Hi,
Hi!

>> longer term goal should be to make the applications provide some hint
> to make
>> it
>> possible to select the input method automatically.
> As for this point, in fact I have considered it for a long time. Is it
> possible to add a method like set_inputmethod_hint () to Gtk Widgets
> which can receive inputs (e.g, GtkEntry,etc.)? Then application
> developers can use this method to set specific input method for some
> widgets which have dedicated purpose. E.g., phone number entry in
> contact editor window should only receive number input.

AFAIK Nokia did some hack to achieve this. In numeric input fields only
numbers can be input (the characters are greyed out on the virtual
keboard), even a hexadecimal mode is possible (e.g. for hex-WEP-key).

But I think it was rather a hack and is quite surely not upstream.

> Regards
> Yu Yijun
Cheers
  nils faerber

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