Re: GtkCombo and GtkList

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thursday, 19 September '02, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> In gtk-2.0, the GtkCombo widget uses a drop-down GtkList, not a
> GtkTreeView as I would expect. Which is deprecated. 
> 
> 1) Are there plans to replace this for gtk-2.2? 
> 2) Because I'm loath to duplicate the common list code in my app (one
> for GtkTreeView's and one for GtkCombo's, displaying the same data), has
> anyone done some alpha/beta GtkCombo code that replaces the GtkList with
> a GtkTreeView? 
> 3) If not 2), would there be interest if I made a patch (assuming I have
> time to do it) 

A TreeView seems to be overkill here.  I implemented a nice replacement for
GtkCombo using an Entry and a Menu.  I didn't make it into a full-fledged
widget, but it works better than the Combo ever did.

-Lars

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