[pygtk] Formatting a spinbutton's display

[Walter Leibbrandt]

IIRC, you can set custom text with the set_text() method (or by 
modifying the "text" property), seeing as a SpinButton is a sub-class of 
gtk.Entry. So connect to the spin button's "changed" and/or 
"change-value" event(s), read and format the new text and call 
set_text() with your formatted string.

This might also mean that you need to do set_numeric(False) as to allow 
non-numeric strings.

Jeremy S wrote:
> I would like to use a spinbutton but instead of just displaying a
> float or integer, I want the display to be formatted.  In my case I
> want it to be formatted as currency ($ in front and commas separating
> thousands, millions, etc.), but I can't even find any information on
> how to tackle this problem generally.
>
> I know for treeviews this type of thing can be accomplished with
> set_cell_data_func.  Is there anything similar for spinbuttons?
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