On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Ashesh Vashi
<ashesh.vashi@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>
>> > As long as I remember, we found that auto-completion does not work
>> > properly
>> > (not as expected in better manner) in the combo-box under GTK.
>> >
>> > Hence, we decided to make the combo-box read-only at that time, until we
>> > get
>> > some proper solution.
>> >
>>
>> I understand that. I still think it is simpler to allow typing in the
>> combobox I can type "text" quicker than selecting "text" item in the
>> combobox (and way way more quicker if I need the serial pseudo-type).
>> Moreover, we have the GuessedSelection functions to check what the user
>> types in, don't we?
>
>
> That's true.
> We can do that..
I love how Ashesh's memory of pgAdmin's commits goes back over 5 years :-)
In any case, he's right. As I recall, you get some really weird
behaviour with auto-complete, which is less desirable than being able
to type. It's worth playing again though - the behaviour of wxWidgets
might have changed enough since I last tried to fix it.
--
Dave Page
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