Fwd: Evolving ComboBox API

[Alois Goller <goller tttech com>]

Hi,

interesting news ...!

Kristian Rietveld wrote:
> Hey,
>
> After more thinking and talking, it's time for another round of headers.
> A number of things have changed since last time:
>
> - EggCellView and friends will be private widgets,
>
> - The original base class, EggComboBox, has been dropped,
>
> - Quite a number of changes in the TextCombo area, completion will move
> to GtkEntry (API details to be announced later on), history handling
> will be totally up to the user. Also, EggComboBoxText is now just a
> EggComboBox with a GtkEntry as child,
>
> - The TextCombo popdown and the completion items will now come from
> separate models. The TextCombo would use the model specified during
> construction of the widget. The GtkEntry completion code would get the
> items from the model specified during enabling completion.
>
>
>
> I've attached the header files (only two!) and they come with some
> notes:
>
> - The convenience functions in EggComboBox will create a model for the
> user, the user won't be able to access it directly. So he's pretty much
> stuck with the chosen layout. There will be checks in the code to avoid
> the user from ruining everything by doing evil things,
>
> - The name egg_combo_box_new_text() is badly chosen, we need another
> name for this. Maybe something like egg_combo_box_simple_new(),
>
> - The pixtext convenience handlers, which would provide easy API for
> creating option menus with pixbuf, text pairs has been dropped. I still
> think that this code can be useful, others don't.
>
>
>
> Information on the new completion API will follow somewhere in the next
> two weeks. Hopefully.
>
> ...

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Alois