Just my opinion, but if anyone decides to create a combo box, the one that
has been part of MS Access since at least version 2.0 would be the one to
model it after. I have yet to see any combo box in any
language/platform/application that has worked as well as that one does.
John Sheehan
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 09:09:06 -0700, Vernon Cole <vernondc...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I've been intending to make enough time to create a combobox for PyGUI.
In
my humble opinion, the combobox provided by Windows GUI is brain damaged
to
the point of utter frustration and should not be used for human
consumption. I sent an epistle to this effect to the wxpython group, and
got the answer "that's what the OS provides."
The problem is that the Windows combobox does not allow for the user to
type more than one letter to select an item from the list -- there is no
provision for matching to a substring. Let's say that I am trying to
select
"Wisconsin" from a list of states of the U.S. I type the "W" and get
"Washington". Then I type the "I" and get "Idaho". Most frustrating.
If I
am trying to select "1950" from a list of acceptable years, I must use
the
mouse, or scroll down 50 times from "1900". Yech!
I think that a proper combobox will have to be coded at a higher
level. I
hope I'm wrong.
--
Vernon Cole
_______________________________________________
python-win32 mailing list
python-win32@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
