Re: GtkComboBox design issues

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> If you decide on the form of completion found in most web browsers these
> days, please do it similarly to mozilla, and put in a delay before
> performing the completion.  It is really annoying to type in the exact
> string you want and press enter, only to find that the program has
> appended something extra onto the end.

Scott Berkun (former UI designer on IE4/5) posted a mail about
autocompletion on the ACM CHI-WEB list the other day, explaining how and
why they changed the history list behaviour between IE4 and IE5... I
know that's a rather specialised case of a combo box, but you might find
it interesting anyway:

http://www.acm.org/archives/wa.cgi?A2=ind0011b&L=chi-web&F=&S=&P=16970

Cheeri,
Calum.

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