One concern is that "combo" and "list" that is used by combo are
both marked as deprecated in the gtk source. But I've read that
optionmenu shouldn't be used for multiple select. So what's left
for a popup multiple select widget?
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:28:19 -0500
george young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [pygtk-1.99.15, gtk-2.2.1, python 2.3a1]
> I need something *like* a combo widget, but that allows multiple
> and extended selects and for which the "entry" widget is read-only
> and shows a "summary" of the selections. E.g.
>
> 1
> 2*
> 3*
> 4*
> 5
> 8*
> [2-4,8]
>
> where 2,3,4 and 6 are the selected options and "2-4,6" is the
> read-only summary.
>
> I've started hacking at the Combo widget, but I wonder if this is
> the right path. Does anyone have a better suggestion, or ideas of
> how to cleanly (from python) hack the Combo widget to this end?
>
> More generally, I need to allow selection of arbitrary items,
> (short strings, often just integers)
> as well as an easy way to select a range (e.g. with a swipe of
> the mouse), but when closed, the display shows a compacted
> summary of the selections. My app has typically from 5 to 25
items, but occasionally 50.
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