Re: Controlling a widget from an other

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:12:00PM +0000, Kalap kabat wrote:
> Here there is actual need for it. It's an item selector window which is 
> designed this way, so that it can be operated with the absolute minimum number 
> of keypresses:
>
> The user types something into the text field. The relevant items are appearing 
> in the treeview immediately during typing. The user selects an item with up/
> down (without having to press TAB first to move the keyboard focus to the 
> treeview) and presses ENTER. Not having to type TAB is important, because if 
> the user changes his mind there is no need to put the keyboard focus back to 
> the text field manually again. There is no need for explicit focus switching to 
> operate the window.

In other words you are trying to reinvent
GtkEntryCompletion.

Yeti


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