[Lazarus] New mailing list for messages specific to the gtk2 widgetset

[Vincent Snijders]

Gerard N/A ha scritto:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:15 AM, 
coppolastudio at virgilio.it <coppolastudio at virgilio.it> wrote:
>
>     
What you say is right for single component but not for composite
>     
components like edit&button. In fact you cannot type on a button but
>     you can do that on a edit.
>
>
> So?  a TCustomEditButton is only 
a TEdit with an additional alternative entry system.
> The 
button+calendar are just helpers to the editor, not the other way 
around.
Yes I think so

>
>     Due to different date format (short 
long and
>     so on) the original idea was to select a date by a 
calendar and not by
>     typing. In this way the user bypass the date 
format.
>
>
> That's where a property like DirectEdit (or whatever you 
want to call it ) would be handy. You set it to true and the user is 
forced to use the button+popup dialog to choose a value.

OK! it is 
better than readonly 


>
> Regards,
>
> Gerard.