My current project requires that I write wrappers around all common GTK and Win32 .NET controls to give them a common functionality set. Sort of like what wxWindows would do but much much more simple with much less functionality.
I mention this because with the exception of the GtkComboBox control, GTK flat out embarrasses the .NET widgets. Most of the time I'm struggling to make the .NET controls do something simple while scaling the GTK functionality back dramatically. It isn't so much that the GTK combo is bad, but way to complex. I would say the Win32 combo is much better, but at least it's simple. To be fair, I've worked with combo controls from at least 4 different widget sets and they all were horrible. Win32, GTK, Web, Borland, Java, they all suck. I think as a control, the combo control is just a bad concept. I will probably create my own combo type control in addition to the native Win32/GTK combo box controls. It will basically be a text field with a button directly to the right of it. When the button is clicked a separate window will be opened with a grid inside it. This allows me to bypass all the horrible problems with combos on each platform. It will be a little slower for a user to use than a combo, but the ease of use should be better since the user/developer can resize the grid, etc if needed. On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:55, control H wrote: > [I already posted this to the gtk-list, I'm not sure which list I should use] > > I'll start with apologies for upcoming rant. In general I like Gtk: > I'm programming with it for a couple of years now and it's easy to > learn, reasonably fast, has many bindings, runs on windows, and is > highly themable. However, an ever returning frustration for me is the > lack of a decent combobox. With every release of Gtk I hoped for a > better combo, but to be fair, GtkCombo is in some ways still a better > option than GtkComboBox. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
