A multi-button entry is a widget letting a user enter text and each chunk of text managed as a set of buttons. Each text button is inserted by pressing the "return" key. If there is no space in the current row, a new button is added to the next row. When a text button is pressed, it will become focused. Backspace removes the focus. When the multi-button entry loses focus, items longer than one line are shrunk to one line.

The typical use case of multi-button entry is composing emails/messages to a group of addresses, each of which is an item that can be clicked for further actions.

This widget inherits from the Layout one, so that all the functions acting on it also work for multi-button entry objects (since 1.8).

This widget emits the following signals, besides the ones sent from Layout :

"item,selected" - this is called when an item is selected by api, user interaction, and etc. this is also called when a user press back space while cursor is on the first field of entry.
"item,added" - when a new multi-button entry item is added.
"item,deleted" - when a multi-button entry item is deleted.
"item,clicked" - this is called when an item is clicked by user interaction. Both "item,selected" and "item,clicked" are needed.
"item,longpressed" - when multi-button entry item is pressed for a long time.
"clicked" - when multi-button entry is clicked.
"focused" - when multi-button entry is focused.
"unfocused" - when multi-button entry is unfocused.
"expanded" - when multi-button entry is expanded.
"contracted" - when multi-button entry is contracted.
"expand,state,changed" - when shrink mode state of multi-button entry is changed.

Default text parts of the multi-button entry widget that you can use are:

"default" - A label of the multi-button entry

Default text parts of multi-button entry items that you can use are:

"default" - A label of the multi-button entry item

Supported elm_object_item common APIs.

Functions
Evas_Object *	elm_multibuttonentry_add (Evas_Object *parent)
	Add a new multibuttonentry to the parent.
void	elm_multibuttonentry_format_function_set (Eo obj, Elm_Multibuttonentry_Format_Cb format_function, const void data)
	Set a function to format the string that will be used to display the hidden items counter.
Typedefs
typedef Eina_Bool(*	Elm_Multibuttonentry_Item_Filter_Cb )(Evas_Object obj, const char item_label, void item_data, void data)
	Callback to be invoked when an item is added to the multibuttonentry.
typedef char (	Elm_Multibuttonentry_Format_Cb )(int count, void *data)

Typedef Documentation

Elm_Multibuttonentry_Format_Cb

This callback type is used to format the string that will be used to display the hidden items counter, when not in expanded mode.

Parameters:

count	Number of hidden items
data	The (context) data passed in to elm_multibuttonentry_format_function_set()

Returns:: String representing the counter that will be set to multibuttonentry's counter item's text.

See also:: elm_multibuttonentry_format_function_set(); elm_multibuttonentry_expanded_set()

typedef Eina_Bool(* Elm_Multibuttonentry_Item_Filter_Cb)(Evas_Object *obj, const char *item_label, void *item_data, void *data)

Callback to be invoked when an item is added to the multibuttonentry.

Parameters:

obj	The parent object
item_label	The label corresponding to the added item.
item_data	data specific to this item.
data	data specific to the multibuttonentry.

Returns:: EINA_TRUE EINA_FALSE otherwise.

Function Documentation

Evas_Object* elm_multibuttonentry_add ( Evas_Object * parent )

Add a new multibuttonentry to the parent.

Parameters:

parent The parent object

Returns:: The new object or NULL if it cannot be created

Since :: 2.3

void elm_multibuttonentry_format_function_set	(	Eo *	obj,
		Elm_Multibuttonentry_Format_Cb	format_function,
		const void *	data
	)

Set a function to format the string that will be used to display the hidden items counter.

If format_function is NULL, the default format will be used, which is $"... + %d".

Parameters:

[in]	obj	The object.
[in]	format_function	Format_function The actual format function
[in]	data	Data User data to passed to `format_function`

Since (EFL) :: 1.9

Since :: 3.0

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Typedef Documentation

Function Documentation