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 <chri...@deganius.de>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 > > -- > Dies ist keine Signatur > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The best possible search technologies are now affordable for all companies. > Download your FREE open source Enterprise Search Engine today! > Our experts will assist you in its installation for $59/mo, no commitment. > Test it for FREE on our Cloud platform anytime! > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=145328191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The best possible search technologies are now affordable for all companies. Download your FREE open source Enterprise Search Engine today! Our experts will assist you in its installation for $59/mo, no commitment. Test it for FREE on our Cloud platform anytime! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=145328191&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user