Re: GtkComboBox design -- first draft

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 02:47:19PM +0200, Kristian Rietveld wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-03-31 at 05:15, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > 
> > I'd prefer to see the base class and the dropdown content be kept
> > distinct.  A treeview based list seems nice for list type combos,
> > but could we not keep that in a derived class ?
> 
> The point is that we want to have both menu-style and list-style in the
> same widget, with the same API. A style-property determines whether the
> menu-style or list-style will be used. Because of this we can't put the
> list-style combo in a derived class.

IMHO the selection of list vs menu applies to a subset of combo
boxes.  Which is why I'd like to see it and its api in a derived
class.