[gtk-server] Re: gtk-server Digest V5 #7
- From: Erik Winkels <euqirea@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gtk-server@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 12:17:41 +0200
> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:28:46 -0700
> From: "John Spikowski" <johnspikowski@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> From: Erik Winkels <euqirea@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:09:02 +0200
>>
>> Still, wanting control over the amount of decimals should be one of the
>> most (of not the most) common cases.
>
> Isn't the hosting language's FORMAT function (our something similar)
> responsible for expressions processing and data formatting?
No, that's the whole problem. Otherwise I wouldn't have had this conversation
with Peter :-)
My problem is this: I've got a column with monetary (floats) values that also
needs to be sortable. If I tell GTK the column contains strings I can use
my hosting language's formatting and it'll look exactly the way I want it to,
but the numbers will also be sorted as strings which is incorrect, ie:
1
10
11
2
3
instead of:
1
2
3
10
11
I could temporarily use ugly hacks like putting zeroes in front of all the
numbers so they all will be of equal length.
Now, when I tell GTK the column contains floats GTK somehow insists on using
its own format and prints them all with six decimals in my case, no matter
what I fill the columns with. So if I fill the model column like this:
123
987.6543
777.12345678
456.78
912.45
It will be printed in the view like this:
123.000000
987.654300
777.123456
456.780000
912.450000
Which is horrible if you want to display monetary values, but the sorting
does work ;-)
Hope this explains it.
Erik
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