> Well, whatever the common usage, technically a combo box is a combination
> of an input field and a drop-down list, like a font size
> selector.

Precisely.

> More to
> the point is that OSControl
> (http://www.peghole.com/xtras/osc_xtra/  email:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) includes two kinds of drop-down menus--one
> like the the
> font selector in Director,

Is that not a combobox in windows?

> and the other like a menubar drop-down
> menu.

That is the #OSMenu widget and is actually used for contextual menu pop-ups,
but you can fake it as a menubar drop-down.

> I'm
> using both, and they work great. But I don't think there is one control
> that can be properly called a combobox.

But I believe there is a combobox in the OSControl Xtra. It's the
#OSpopupMenu widget which acts like a combobox in windows and a pop up menu
on a mac. Am I wrong?

ck


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