Re: trying to get keypresses in an OptionMenu

2005-12-19 Thread muppet
Travis J.I. Corcoran said: > > I've got an OptionMenu that is unwieldy to scroll through - it has > approximately 2,000 choices. Menus are not a good UI element for that many choices. Even a set of 50 elements is stretching the limits of what a menu is good for. Try using a scrollable list; gtk

trying to get keypresses in an OptionMenu

2005-12-19 Thread Travis J.I. Corcoran
I've got an OptionMenu that is unwieldy to scroll through - it has approximately 2,000 choices. It occurred to me that allowing the user to type a character, and then jumping to an appropriate entry ( through OptionMenu::set_history() ) would help a lot. The problem I have is that I don't know h