widget needed which widget set provides it?

[David LeBlanc]

What you want is a combo/dropdown box that returns an event for each
character typed and then you do the incremental search/filtering.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

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> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of grant
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:00
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> Subject: Re: widget needed which widget set provides it?
>
>
> On Thu, 30 May 2002 01:04:41 -0700, Nagy Gabor wrote:
>
> > Hi! I'd like to have a widget, just like the location bar of current web
> > browsers: a combobox, that folds down automatically when the user starts
> > typing in it, and as he types further, the list of available selections
> > is filtered according the pattern he's given.
> >
> > I simply want the user to be able to choose one from tens or hundreds of
> > names, or to add a new one, and location bars seem to be a very
> > convenient way to do this.
> >
> > I always used TkInter so far (not too many times though), and now I
> > checked python megawidgets, but they do not provide this widget.
> >
> > Which other widget set do you suggest?
> >
> > It has to run on unices and windows of course.
> >
> > Regards
> > Gee
>
> Give wxpython a look.  It has tons of widgets and super easy to port from
> windows to linux.  Follows OOP very nicely to subclassing widgets helps
> make the code easier to read.... :)
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