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I wanted to force the user to click in an edit box to see a cursor prompt.
I found I could hide the cursor when launching a gtkdialog window using
a little trick--->

Squeeze an unused ENTRY widget to the left of window
and put "1" in entry field to make it as small as possible.
The result is light blue vertical line that can be hardly seen (see image)
Final project is " PUP Diary"
Here is some code to show how I did it...
Note that I used

 space-expand="false" space-fill="false"

to squeeze the first entry widget.
The second widget is normal-sized to enter some data.

<window    title="PUP Diary '$VERSION'" resizable="false">
<vbox>
 <hbox>    <text space-expand="false" space-fill="false">
            <label>"'$(gettext 'Window height')'"</label> 
            </text>
               <entry space-expand="false" space-fill="false" max_length="1"  width-request="1">                                                 

              <variable>Fake_entry</variable>
              <default>1</default>
              </entry>
              <entry space-expand="false" space-fill="false" max_length="3"  tooltip-text="'$(gettext 'Change the height of window')'" width-request="50">                                                 

              <variable>Height</variable>
              <default>'`cat $WORKDIR/height`'</default>
              </entry> 

don570 wrote: Mon Jan 29, 2024 10:03 pm

I found I could hide the cursor when launching a gtkdialog window using
a little trick

Looks like this doesn't work with modern gtkdialog versions as used in BW64 (see screenshot), however it brings up the more interesting question: How to force entry widgets to a smaller width than their default width in gtkdialog versions compiled for GTK3? I haven't found an answer. Forcing widget sizes is a real problem in GTK3.

As for your cursor hiding exercise: You don't need this - definitely not here and probably never ever. You could force the cursor to the edit box instead of letting gtkdialog take focus of the preceding entry box. Try <edit has-focus="true">

Looks like this doesn't work with modern gtkdialog versions as used in BW64

Tested in fatdog64 and Easy OS
which have different versions of gtkdialog I guess??

The purpose of exercise was to show nothing selected and force the user to
click in the editor widget.

I'll try

<edit has-focus="false">

in the widgets.

don570 wrote: Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:56 pm

I'll try

Code: Select all

<edit has-focus="false">

in the widgets.

That's not what I suggested and doesn't make sense.

I looked at Thunor's examples...
There is one example explaining focusing
but focusing isn't useful to me
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=82059

So I rearranged the widgets and made the PUPDiary package again.
It should be useful for people who know markdown language

<Fatdog sidebar start>
@don570, Fatdog provides both GTK2 and GTK3 versions. The GTK2 version is pre-installed. You can install the GTK3 version via package manager. If you do you will end up with the following files:

/usr/bin/gtkdialog -> gtkdialog_gtk3
/usr/bin/gtkdialog3 -> gtkdialog
/usr/bin/gtkdialog4 -> gtkdialog
/usr/bin/gtkdialog_gtk2
/usr/bin/gtkdialog_gtk3

The last two lines are the actual binaries. Run your dialog with gtkdialog_gtk2. Then with gtkdialog_gtk3. You will see differences, as @MochiMoppel said.
There's also a package that installs gtkdialog documentation in /usr/share/doc/gtkdialog-0.8.5. You get it when you load devx sfs or if you install package gtkdialog_doc via package manager.
<sidebar end>

Bookworm Pup64 has 'upgraded' its version of gtkdialog

Bookworm Pup64 10.0.1 Changelog
• New Woof-CE build of BW64 including Debian 12.1 binary/security updates (thanks dimkr)
• New 6.1.38 kernel build (thanks dimkr)
• Update gtkdialog to 0.8.5c and WeeChat to 4.0.3 (thanks dimkr)

Quite a bit different from the fatdog64 version.
Old programs need to be modifieid. Combobox widget converted to comboboxtext widget
Thunor explained change in old forum...
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 95#p695709

don570 wrote: Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:24 pm

Quite a bit different from the fatdog64 version.

It's the same major version that Fatdog64 provides. The difference you're seeing is entirely due to the GTK version, 2 vs 3, not to the gtkdialog version (which is the same). This post https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 02#p110702 details the GTK2 and GTK3 packages available in Fatdog64.

gtkdialog 0.8.5c
Two differences I have seen

1) COMBOBOX widget is ignored
2) ENTRY widget width can't be changed
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 6f#p695709

don570 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:23 pm

2) ENTRY widget width can't be changed

It can. I'll let this script do the talking - runs in gtkdialog compiled with 2 or 3 gtk lib, with a switch for recent woof builds, so should run OOTB in bookworm64 which has gtkdialog(gtk3) and gtk2dialog(gtk2). The script is basically your snippet from the OP with the cli switch to run either.

In the gtkdialog wiki there are links to GTK3 widget descriptions including properties for each widget.

#!/bin/sh
VERSION=XXX
case $1 in
	2)G=gtk2dialog
	E='max_length="1"  width-request="1"'
	L=max_length;;
	*)G=gtkdialog
	E='visible="false" has-focus="true"'
	L=width-chars;;
esac
echo '<window    title="PUP Diary '$VERSION'" resizable="false">
<vbox>
 <hbox>    <text space-expand="false" space-fill="false">
            <label>"'$(gettext 'Window height')'"</label> 
            </text>
               <entry space-expand="false" space-fill="false" '$E'>                                                 

          <variable>Fake_entry</variable>
          <default>1</default>
          </entry>
          <entry space-expand="false" space-fill="false" '$L'="3"  tooltip-text="'$(gettext 'Change the height of window')'" width-request="50">                                                 

          <variable>Height</variable>
          <default>222</default>
          </entry> 
  </hbox>
 </vbox>
 </window>'| $G -s

thanks for info