I have to give a bump to this. Does anyone know the secret behind the browser URL bar? Is the code even posted somewhere (Not sure, is that part of the browser open source?).
It's perfect for what I need... Thanks! On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Brent Chiodo <bchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to add search history support to a hildon.Entry but am having a > bit of trouble. In short, I want to have the user type into the entry and if > what they are typing is present in their history, have a list appear showing > what their current entry matches in their history. If the user taps on an > item in the list, it should set the entry to that value (basically a > gtk.ComboboxEntry that is populated based on what the user has currently > entered into the entry). > > Looking through the PyGTK widgets, it seemed that a gtk.EntryCompletion was > exactly what I was looking for. I tried creating a hildon.Entry and using > the .set_completion() method to set the entry but that doesn't appear to > work very well. The main problems are: > > 1) The generated list doesn't seem to popup reliably (sometimes it will, > sometimes it won't) > 2) The rows in the popup aren't clickable -- you can select them via the > up/down then return buttons on the keyboard, but are not directly clickable. > 3) The rows aren't finger-friendly at all (not that you can click them > anyway...) > > So, how would I go about creating the above? It is doable, because I pretty > much need to know how to make something like the builtin browser uses in > it's toolbar (actually, the browser search bar is exactly what I want to > implement, I just don't know what widget(s) are required to do it). > > Thanks for reading! > > -- > Best Regards, > > Brent Chiodo > -- Best Regards, Brent Chiodo
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