Re: Bug with ComboBoxText.clear()

[John Taber <jtaber johntaber net>]

Thanks for suggestions - I will upgrade to 2.6.  btw the ComboBoxText wrapper 
is actually very convenient in a number of cases - thks for including it. 

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 11:29, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 11:14 -0600, John Taber wrote:
> > Yes, I'm running version 2.4.  What would you recommend?
> > 1) upgrade to 2.6 -
>
> In general, yes.
>
> > Are there Fedora pkgs for 2.6 now ?
> >   If not, I would have
> > to switch to Ubuntu which has 2.6.1 (something I planned to do but wasn't
> > planning on doing it right now)
> > 2) not use clear() - but is there a workaround to empty the combobox?
>
> Remember that ComboBoxText and ComboBoxEntryText are very small
> convenience wrappers for CombBox and ComboBoxEntry. You can copy their
> implementation and do your own stuff instead. You might even be able to
> derive from them and add methods that you need.
>
> Personally, I find that they are rarely enough - I need multiple columns
> in most cases, so I always derive a class.