Re: Gtk2::ComboBox with a dummy entry

["Matthew Braid" <ptkperl mdb id au>]

Oh, I'm well aware its not good - that's why I can't get it to work
I'm guessing :)

Its actually a request from 'on-high' - apparently the menu button I
_was_ using didn't 'fit in' with other combo boxes on the same screen.

I'd be more than happy with a 'its not possible' answer - much less
work for me. And then I can point to it and say 'smarter people than I
told me so' ;)

MB

On 1/30/07, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis gmx de> wrote:
> * Matthew Braid <ptkperl mdb id au> [2007-01-29 05:05]:
> > Essentially, I want the CB to always show 'Choose an extension
> > to add', but have a list of valid extensions pop up when its
> > clicked that does _not_ include 'Choose an extension to add'
>
> Sounds like bad UI design to me. You are aware how badly this
> violates user expectations? Is there a really important reason
> to make this control behave so gratuitously differently from all
> other comboboxes the users have seen before?
>
> "Choose an extension to add" should be a label, not hacked into
> the control itself. Actually it would be "Extension to add",
> since "Choose an" is redundant; the fact that there is a combobox
> is inherently a prompt to make a choice so this fact needn't be
> pointed out separately.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
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