control H wrote:
Well, I must admit that I haven't used Windows more than occasionaly
for the last three or four years, but the last time I checked,
Windows combo box was much _worse_ than GTK+'s, in my opinion. You
would often get a five-line combo where you'd have to scroll like
hell
It is the trade-off of the policy that the selected item is under
the pointer in the just shown popup, period. I think it is
generally good, but this is an example of where it shows its
drawbacks. However, for the sake of UI consistency, I believe it
should _not_ be changed. I.e. it be under
David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:26:58PM +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
It is the trade-off of the policy that the selected item is under the
pointer in
the just shown popup, period. I think it is generally good, but this is
an example
of where it shows its
I am pretty negative about the combo as a control, not just the GTK
combo. Widget sets don't have much of a choice but to include it since
it's considered a core control, but as a developer, I try to avoid it if
I can.
As has been discussed previously, the problem with the combo as a
control is
[snip]
To be fair, I've worked with combo controls from at least 4 different
widget sets and they all were horrible. Win32, GTK, Web, Borland, Java,
they all suck. I think as a control, the combo control is just a bad
concept.
I'm not that negative about a combo control. After all, a good
control H wrote:
[snip]
To be fair, I've worked with combo controls from at least 4 different
widget sets and they all were horrible. Win32, GTK, Web, Borland, Java,
they all suck. I think as a control, the combo control is just a bad
concept.
I'm not that negative about a combo
Well, I must admit that I haven't used Windows more than occasionaly for the
last three or four years, but the last time I checked, Windows combo box was
much _worse_ than GTK+'s, in my opinion. You would often get a five-line
combo where you'd have to scroll like hell to skip all those 200
control H wrote:
I'm not saying GTK+'s combo is perfect, but I think it is generally better
than anything else I've seen. At least it always uses all the screen space
it has.
But this is one of my other objections: it merely _tries_ to use all the
screen
space available. It draws the
[I already posted this to the gtk-list, I'm not sure which list I should use]
I'll start with apologies for upcoming rant. In general I like Gtk:
I'm programming with it for a couple of years now and it's easy to
learn, reasonably fast, has many bindings, runs on windows, and is
highly themable.
My current project requires that I write wrappers around all common GTK
and Win32 .NET controls to give them a common functionality set. Sort
of like what wxWindows would do but much much more simple with much less
functionality.
I mention this because with the exception of the GtkComboBox
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