Re: How can I achieve this?

[ikorot earthlink net]

Hi, Nestor,
Sorry for such a late reply. Been away for a vacation...

-----Original Message-----
>From: Néstor <nestorac gmail com>
>Sent: Mar 20, 2009 6:22 PM
>To: ikorot earthlink net
>Cc: gtk-list gnome org
>Subject: Re: How can I achieve this?
>
>Hi Ikorot,
>
>I think that there must be some examples of this behaviour on current
>applications. Take a look at this simple example, which explains how
>combo boxes work:
>
>http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/chapter-combobox.html
>
>Maybe you can add items for your ComboBox using the function append_text??

I understand that. What I'm looking for is the specific place to call append_text.
I need to do it when the list box of the combo box pops up.

The problem here is that I don't know the choices that will be in the combo box at
design time. And the "popup-shown" property:
(http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkComboBox.html#GtkComboBox--popup-shown)
is from 2.10 forward.

I want to be able to do it on the earlier versions of GTK+.

>
>I have no specific knowledge on this matter, but the usual thing I do
>when I face similar problems is to try to think with a wider
>perspective. Is is necessary to do that? How was it achieved in the
>past? Sometimes those new functions are not very tested, and may cause
>problems.
>
>I hope this little help may work for you.

Thank you.

>
>On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:20 PM,  <ikorot earthlink net> wrote:
>> Hi, Nestor,
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Néstor <nestorac gmail com>
>>>Sent: Mar 20, 2009 3:52 PM
>>>To: ikorot earthlink net
>>>Cc: gtk-list gnome org
>>>Subject: Re: How can I achieve this?
>>>
>>>It would be better if you provide us with some application to try, and
>>>see if there is some easier solution. I have no idea, but this seems
>>>to be hard to achieve. At least some screenshots and a little
>>>explanation of your purposes and ideas would do the job.
>>
>> For the explanation, take a look here:
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775810(VS.85).aspx and
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb775806(VS.85).aspx.
>>
>> Basically, I'm looking for a way to intercept the dropdown/popup
>> notification of the list box of the combo box.
>> The link I'm referring to does the job nicely, but I want to have something
>> for the versions prior to 2.10.
>>
>> The idea is to implement dynamically filled combo box, when I know what items
>> will be in at run-time.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>>
>>>On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM,  <ikorot earthlink net> wrote:
>>>> OK, since I didn't get a responce on this one, I'll ask a little differently:
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to backport this feature to earlier GTK+ versions?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: ikorot earthlink net
>>>>>Sent: Mar 18, 2009 7:20 PM
>>>>>To: gtk-list gnome org
>>>>>Subject: How can I achieve this?
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi, ALL,
>>>>>
>>>>>This feature: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkComboBox.html#GtkComboBox--popup-shown
>>>>>available only on GTK+ 2.10 and above. Is it possible to do that - catch
>>>>>combobox list popup - on the GTK versions prior to that?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thank you.
>>>>
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