Re: dynamic combo entry

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Howorth
[posted back to list and trimmed] Varun Khaneja wrote: > On 8/7/07, Jim George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 8/7/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Jim George wrote: It may not be exactly what you want, but gtk_entry_set_completion might help. >>> It looks interesting. I'

Re: dynamic combo entry

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Howorth
Jim George wrote: > On 8/7/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jim George wrote: >>> It may not be exactly what you want, but gtk_entry_set_completion might >>> help. >> It looks interesting. I've found the page in the reference manual and it >> says lots of things that sound intriguing

Re: dynamic combo entry

2007-08-07 Thread Jim George
On 8/7/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim George wrote: > > It may not be exactly what you want, but gtk_entry_set_completion might > > help. > > It looks interesting. I've found the page in the reference manual and it > says lots of things that sound intriguing but I'm having troub

Re: dynamic combo entry

2007-08-07 Thread Dave Howorth
Jim George wrote: > It may not be exactly what you want, but gtk_entry_set_completion might help. It looks interesting. I've found the page in the reference manual and it says lots of things that sound intriguing but I'm having trouble grasping exactly what a GtkEntryCompletion can do :( Are ther

Re: dynamic combo entry

2007-08-07 Thread Jim George
On 8/7/07, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Users need to choose from a very long list of possibilities (approx half > million). > > A neat interface that I saw for this (in Javascript IIRC) is to have a > combo box entry. As the user types the beginning of the name, the combo > box displa

dynamic combo entry

2007-08-07 Thread Dave Howorth
Users need to choose from a very long list of possibilities (approx half million). A neat interface that I saw for this (in Javascript IIRC) is to have a combo box entry. As the user types the beginning of the name, the combo box displays the first few possibilities that match and can select one a