Thus spake Kristian Rietveld: > Sorry for reposting this message, but I need an answer to the question > below :). > > Thanks, > > Kris > > -------- > > On 20 Nov 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > > Dan Winship <danw helixcode com> writes: > > > I think the autocompletion thing may be more of a GtkEntry thing than > > > a GtkComboBox thing. (Using Evolution as an example again, you > > > obviously don't want to have a combo box with a pop-up menu of > > > everyone in your addressbook, but once the user starts typing, you do > > > want to suggest completions.) I think it would be nice to have this > > > functionality be part of GtkEntry, and have GtkComboBox just make the > > > appropriate gtk_entry_ calls on its entry to set completion up to work > > > the way that makes sense for a combo box. > > > > > > > Good idea. That sounds like the Right Thing to me. So the text combo > > box just adds the extra dropdown, and causes the entry autocomplete to > > work in terms of the items in the extra dropdown. > > > > This certainly is a very good idea. Should I remove all autocompletion > stuff from the GtkComboBoxText? I also think the GtkComboBoxText will be > more 'maintainable' if we move the autocompletion stuff to the > GtkEntry. So if everybody agrees with it, I'll remove the autocompletion > code from the GtkComboBoxText. This sounds like a good idea to me, as autocompletion is generally useful in Entry boxes. You (someone) should make sure that the API for getting possible completions allows you to hand it the entries of a ComboBoxText, so that you can hook it back in. However, someone who's more up on GtkEntry (Havoc?) should prolly comment, as this will require work on the GtkEntry side of things. -- -nils Public key: http://www.nbarth.net/~nbarth/pub-key.txt
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