[Gambas-user] extended Combobox

[Jussi Lahtinen]

This seems to be bug (or lack of feature in GTK+). Combobox is searchable
with Qt4 but not with GTK+.


Jussi


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Christof Thalhofer <chrisml at ...3340...>wrote:

> Am 26.05.2014 11:50, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>
> > There is a "DataComboBox" in gb.db.form that does that more or less. But
> > I admit there is no a "ComboBox with a key".
> >
> > Maybe I should implement it, as many lazy :-) old VB users ask for that.
>
> I did not program VB but VBA (used MS Access as db frontend for
> Postgresql) for many years. That has a searchable combobox you can fill
> with either a list or from database.
>
> I'm not ready now*, but here is the code. I hope that's not too much
> spaghetti...
>
> Comboboxes in Linux usually lack the availability to search in by typing
> the first few letters. That's very annoying. Good bad example is
> pgAdmin3, when you create a new column in a table and want to choose the
> type of that column you sometimes have to scroll a lot.
>
> Instead of typing once "in" and get "Integer, Integer[]" with Integer
> preselected ... and the rest available by scroll/(pg)up-(pg)down.
>
> So I would like to have a generic searchable combobox ...
>
> ... and that is, as I imagine, what lazy VB programmers are looking for.
>
> :-)
>
> *Not ready: Fill in anything not in list.
>
>
> Alles Gute
>
> Christof Thalhofer
>
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