Oh, I'm well aware its not good - that's why I can't get it to work I'm guessing :)
Its actually a request from 'on-high' - apparently the menu button I _was_ using didn't 'fit in' with other combo boxes on the same screen. I'd be more than happy with a 'its not possible' answer - much less work for me. And then I can point to it and say 'smarter people than I told me so' ;) MB On 1/30/07, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Matthew Braid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-29 05:05]: > > Essentially, I want the CB to always show 'Choose an extension > > to add', but have a list of valid extensions pop up when its > > clicked that does _not_ include 'Choose an extension to add' > > Sounds like bad UI design to me. You are aware how badly this > violates user expectations? Is there a really important reason > to make this control behave so gratuitously differently from all > other comboboxes the users have seen before? > > "Choose an extension to add" should be a label, not hacked into > the control itself. Actually it would be "Extension to add", > since "Choose an" is redundant; the fact that there is a combobox > is inherently a prompt to make a choice so this fact needn't be > pointed out separately. > > Regards, > -- > Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> > _______________________________________________ > gtk-perl-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list
