On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, John Cupitt wrote: > Lars Clausen wrote: >> On 02 Aug 2002, Lars Clausen wrote: >> >>>I'm using a GtkComboBox in Dia for zoom selection. I can't quite get it >>>to behave the way I'd like. It ought to be that when the user selects >>>an item from the drop-down list (making the drop-down disappear), the >>>zoom amount should be updated. However, I haven't found a signal that >>>will tell me that the user made his or her final selection. >>>"select-child" and "selection-changed" from the GtkList is called while >>>the mouse is dragged over the items. "unmap", "hide" and "unrealize" >>>don't get called. I don't want the user to have to press Enter after >>>selecting from the menu, that's all. What should I do? >> >> >> In the end, I dropped the ComboBox and changed to combined Entry and > Button >> with menu-popup. Works just the way the ComboBox should have. >> >> -Lars >> > > Hi Lars, this is a bit late, but I got around this by catching "hide" on > the combo's popup window: > > popwin = GTK_COMBO (fred)->popwin; > gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (popwin), "hide", > GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (selected), > (gpointer) xx);
The problem with that is that you're signalled when the menu disappears, whether or not the user selected an item. With the popup menu, I am only notified when an item is actually selected. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list