Re: EV_TBIT_ComboBox vs. EV_TBIT_DropDown

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Jordi Mas wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:22:45 +0100
> From: Jordi Mas <jmas@softcatala.org>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Cc: Tomas Frydrych <tomasfrydrych@yahoo.co.uk>, abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: EV_TBIT_ComboBox vs. EV_TBIT_DropDown
>
> > If you have editing you cannot have type ahead find.
> >
> > For a Font list and style list it is more convenient to be able to skip
> > quickly through the list of available choices than it is to insert
> > something that may not be available.
> >
> > For the Zoom list it does make sense to allow users to input arbitrary
> > values because there are many possible values other than the defaults
> > provided. Same goes for font size.
> >
> > This is already covered in bug 1235
> > [RFE] Not possible to change zoom and font size on toolbar:
> > http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235
>
> Alan,
>
> For me this approach makes lots of sense. Should we change to this
> behavior in all platforms?

That request has been around for a long time and I always just assumed
things were done better on non-win32 platforms. So the answer is an
emphatic "Yes Please!".

Unforutnately it seems that the gtk version simply doesn't allow editing
of the drop down boxes at all, nor does it activate the drop down if you
click anywhere on the box. (If the box is not being used for editing then
it should use the whole box to provide a bigger active target area.)

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Fri Dec 17 20:33:33 2004