RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Combo boxes

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

Not near a Linux machine at the moment. Can you post a screen shot ?
(preferably not the glider theme, say the default Ubuntu theme.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 12 May 2006 17:17
> To: xara-dev
> Cc: Alex Bligh
> Subject: [XaraXtreme-dev] Combo boxes
> 
> I have fixed all combo boxes on bars to use 
> wxOwnerDrawnComboBox as of revision 1028.
> 
> This gets rid of many of the combo box bugs we have seen. 
> They also (in my opinion) look better - being less high on 
> the bar. They also do not have the "add scrollbars at every 
> opportunity" tendency that the native ones seem to (though to 
> be fair much of this would have been fixed had we been able 
> to move to wxWidgets 2.7 which uses GTK2.4-era combo boxes 
> rather than GTK1 era combo boxes).
> 
> If and when GTK2.4 system is backported to wxWidgets 2.6 
> (which I think Mart may be working on), it will be very 
> simple to switch the combo boxes back - merely switching them 
> in xrc will do the trick, no code changes necessary (thankyou 
> dialogmanager). However, they do look slightly different, and 
> it might be best to be consistent.
> 
> There is one cosmetic bug I know about - when they are 
> disabled, the text field stays white rather than grey. I 
> don't know why.
> 
> In order to port them, I had to backport the 
> wxOwnerDrawnCombo stuff to 2.6. I haven't yet tried checking 
> it doesn't interfere with 2.7 (it should use the 2.7 built-in 
> owner drawn stuff if it's there but this is untested). If 
> anyone is building with a (recent) wxWidgets 2.7, I would be 
> interested to know how broken I made everything.
> 
> This, by the way, should let me start on the font and colour 
> drop-downs.
> 
> Charles - do they look better?
> 
> Alex
>