[Gretl-devel] Re: no error feedback from GUI join dialog

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, Sven Schreiber wrote:

> My testing shows that the behavior is different in Linux and Windows. On > Linux with current git it works fine. On Windows with the latest > (yesterday's) snapshot I still get no reaction when the defaults are > left as-is. In the text fields I have to manually delete all the "hint" > entries like "same as above", "same as inner" etc. to make it work. > > Perhaps it would be interesting to test on Linux with GTK2, but my > understanding is that you (Allin) are using that all the time anyway? GTK 2 and 3 are different in this respect. GTK3 offers a specific API for putting "placeholder text" into an entry box but GTK2 does not, so I wrote some relatively low-level code to achieve the same effect. It seems I didn't do that quite right -- or at least not for Windows. I've reworked the code and tested on Windows 10, and it's now OK in the current snapshot.