[Glade-users] Re: Display only X lines in GtkComboBox

[Neil Zanella <nzanella gmail com> (Neil Zanella)]

Several Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) recommend that if your comboboxes
are to display around more than 12 items then it's best to forget it and display
a table instead. Comboboxes with a lot of items are bad cause they may not
even fit on the screen. Use a table. Anyways, 5 rows at a time is not really
usable. If you can, allow the table to stretch when the user resizes the
window at the very least. Grrrr..... I hate GUIs that resemble peepholes.

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:24:10 -0400, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 17:41 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> >     I'm using a GtkComboBox to display some strings (stored in a
> > GtkListStore). The number of strings can become large, but I'd like the
> > box to display only a small number of them at a time (something like 5),
> > instead of showing "as many as fits the screen". Is it possible to do
> > that? I didn't find any function for that in the documentation.
>
> Not currently possible.
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