[maemo-developers] Gtk/hildon development questions

[From: Richard Sun]

On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:24 -0700, ext Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1. how can I restrict input in certain input fields to subset of 
> characters. I know it can be done - I remember seeing some application 
> having half-of-hildon keyboard grayed out so that there is no way to 
> type something that is no allowed. As a quick example: numeric-only 
> fields; fact that I have to hit "shift" button first to get normal 
> keypad appear in numeric fields makes it really awkward and unfriendly.

You could set different properties to "hildon-input-mode". If you set to
HILDON_GTK_INPUT_MODE_NUMERIC, for instance, keyboard layout will be
automatically updated to the proper one. 

Please find more from 
http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.0/gtk/GtkIMContext.html#HildonGtkInputMode

Br,
Richard