Re: GtkComboBox and GtkComboBoxEntry

[Dru <andru treshna com>]

Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dru <andru treshna com> writes:
>
>  
>
> > Under GtkCombo the dropdown list showed your currently selected item
> > in the popup list.  The new combo boxes dont do this, if you have a
> > large list of it makes navigation a bit more difficult if you dont
> > know what you had selected before. Is there anyway to get this
> > behavour or suggestions of what code to modify to make this happen?
> >    
>
> The default behaviour is to show the selected item. Either your code
> is doing something wrong or your GTK+ theme is somehow broken.
>
>
> Sven
>  
I changed theme back to gtk default.   I am struggling to find gnome
apps or tool that use GtkComboBoxEntry so i can't find a common app to 
demonistrate
how it doesnt work other than the code i have written.
Heres a link to a screenshot
http://www.treshna.com/~andru/gtkcomboentry.png
the item selected previously is a few pages down, but the list doesnt 
jump to it
or select it. I suspect the priv->tree_view selection isn't been 
selected properly somewhere.

The effects can be seen also with GtkComboBox.  In other apps you
can see the GtkComboBox problem, If you click the selection on 
GtkComboBox it doesnt show
the previous selection highlighted in the list, but highlights on mouse 
over.  It just
centers the list vertically so what you had selected shows up. This 
behavour is ok because
you only deal with small lists generally in a GtkComboBox, but when it 
comes to the
GtkComboBoxEntry it isn't desierable. You have large lists dropped down 
below the
widget and its a lot harder to use than the old GtkCombo.

How i should attempt to solve this problem?
Do i revert back to using GtkCombo code? (that most apps have choosen to 
impliment GtkComboBox but not GtkComboBoxEntry indicates to me its not 
in wide use yet)
Do i try and fix gtkcombobox.c so that it behaves as i expect it to ?
Or should i work around it in my own code?


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