On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Casey McGinty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to create a combobox object than can be sized smaller than the > text. What is the best way to go about doing this? > > Posting the solution to my previous question. Any comments are welcome. Hope someone can use this in the future. comboboxbasic.py ----------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env python import pygtk pygtk.require('2.0') import gtk import gobject import pango class ComboBoxExample: def __init__(self): window = gtk.Window() window.connect('destroy', lambda w: gtk.main_quit()) liststore = gtk.ListStore(gobject.TYPE_STRING) liststore.append( ['Select a pie:']) liststore.append( ['Apple']) liststore.append( ['Cherry']) liststore.append( ['Blueberry']) liststore.append( ['Grape']) liststore.append( ['Peach']) liststore.append( ['Raisin']) combobox = gtk.ComboBox(liststore) cell = gtk.CellRendererText() ########### # ellipsize the text box is the key to getting the '...' feature cell.set_property( 'ellipsize', pango.ELLIPSIZE_END ) ########### combobox.pack_start(cell, True) window.add(combobox) combobox.add_attribute(cell, 'text', 0) combobox.connect('changed', self.changed_cb) combobox.set_active(0) window.show_all() return def changed_cb(self, combobox): model = combobox.get_model() index = combobox.get_active() if index: print 'I like', model[index][0], 'pie' return def main(): gtk.main() return if __name__ == "__main__": bcb = ComboBoxExample() main()
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