comboboxtext and comboboxentry searching about gtkdialog

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Greetings.

I wrote a small patch which implements the first half of this issue. That is, 
supporting basic search in comboboxtext lists. The custom attribute tag is 
"key-search".

A sample script that demonstrates it is:

export DIALOG="
<window>
<vbox>
 <comboboxtext key-search=\"true\">
 <sensitive>enabled</sensitive>
 <item>a</item>
 <item>b</item>
 <item>b</item>
 <item>c</item>
 <item>a</item>
 </comboboxtext>
  <button cancel></button>
</vbox>
</window>
"
gtkdialog -c --program=DIALOG

Pressing b will correctly iterate through the "b" options, likewise for "a".

I have one concern regarding the patch, though. Currently, it reads the 
attribute through get_tag_attribute(attr, "key-search"), but because tag_attr 
variables are not stored for callbacks, I had to invoke 
attributeset_set_if_unset to store it and ask for it in the callback with 
attributeset_is_avail. 

I admit just today I got familiar with the gtkdialog code, so I ask, is there a 
more polished way to do this? In any case, the patch does work, just maybe not 
in the most efficiently possible way.

Original comment by [email protected] on 9 Feb 2012 at 3:13

Attachments:

• gtkdialog.patch

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi

Sorry for the delay in replying but my life's full of mundane things that waste 
my time at the moment :s

Many thanks for your patch :) I'll have a look at it and apply it when I get 
back into coding.

Regards,
Thunor

Original comment by [email protected] on 27 Feb 2012 at 2:05

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When the comboboxtext widget is clicked or Enter is pressed resulting in the 
popup appearing, no events whatsoever are reported for the comboboxtext widget 
until the popup is closed, therefore I need to gain access to the popup as well 
so this isn't as straightforward as one might think.

http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/GtkComboBox.html#gtk-combo-box-get-popup-acc
essible

I'll have to come back to this.

Original comment by [email protected] on 28 Jul 2012 at 9:29