Re: [Tile-dev] Re: entry widget validation with textvariable "not right"

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Earlier, I wrote:
>
> New patch 1302146 posted to SourceForge:
> This changes how the [ttk::entry] widget uses the 'invalid'
> state bit as follows:
> [...]
> Please try it out and let me know.

OK, so no feedback yet.  I'm going to go ahead and commit the patch;
it might not be right, but it's at least closer.

On a related note: what should [$e validate] return?

The core manpage entry(n) just says:

| pathName validate
| 	This command is used to force an evaluation of the validateCommand
| 	independent of the conditions specified by the validate
| 	option. This is done by temporarily setting the validate option
| 	to all. It returns 0 or 1.
|               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Based on the manpage, the [ttk::entry] validate method is compatible --
it does, in fact, always return 0 or 1 -- but the conditions under which
it does so might be different -- see #1236979.

(Which brings up another minor incompatibility: -- The core entry widget
performs validation "by temporarily setting the -validate option to 'all'".
The ttk::entry widget performs validation by performing validation.
I don't think this is too serious a problem ....)


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...