widget needed which widget set provides it?

[grant]

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.... :)