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disciple wrote:It seems the solution doesn't work if I try to use it with xdg-open

disciple wrote:Ah, sorry, my mistake. It didn't just affect xdg-open - I'd got my test system mixed up and was using the early version of gtkwialog, which didn't have gtkdialog compatibility.

#!/bin/sh

export HELP_DIALOG="
<window>
<vbox>
  <button>
   <label>Open murga link in browser</label>
   <action>sh -c "xdg-open http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=149208#149208 1>&- &"</action>
  </button>
  <button ok>
  </button>
</vbox>
</window>
"

MAINGUI="`gtkwialog -b -p HELP_DIALOG`"

echo "hello"

gtkwialog -b -p HELP_DIALOG

echo "goodbye"

exit 0

disciple wrote:Thanks guys, I switched the latest version of gtkwialog back in when I realised.
I think gtkwialog is great, but I'm still writing for gtkdialog, as that is what everybody has at the moment.
BTW, are you still going to release the gtkwialog source?

Is it possible to limit the list displayed by a combobox?

comboboxtext:
User presses a key, the next item that begins with that case insensitive char
is selected and it'll wrap back to the first.

smokey01 wrote:Is it possible to limit the list displayed by a combobox? See screeny. I would like to only display about 10 items.

Is there a better way to do this in gtkdialog, maybe with another widget?

Thanks

smokey01 wrote:Is it possible to limit the list displayed by a combobox? See screeny. I would like to only display about 10 items.

Is there a better way to do this in gtkdialog, maybe with another widget?

Thanks

don570 wrote:A programmer made a patch that allows a search in comboboxtext and
comboboxentry
https://github.com/oshazard/gtkdialog/issues/43

comboboxtext:
User presses a key, the next item that begins with that case insensitive char
is selected and it'll wrap back to the first.

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SFR wrote:

smokey01 wrote:Is it possible to limit the list displayed by a combobox? See screeny. I would like to only display about 10 items.

Is there a better way to do this in gtkdialog, maybe with another widget?

Thanks

Hey Smokey

The closest thing I've found is wrap-width property for comboboxtext, with which you can at least use multiple columns.

Greetings!

technosaurus wrote:

smokey01 wrote:Is it possible to limit the list displayed by a combobox? See screeny. I would like to only display about 10 items.

Is there a better way to do this in gtkdialog, maybe with another widget?

Thanks

You can always use programming to limit the entries to X and have an additional entry for next X and/or previous X.

seaside wrote:smokey01 ,

You might consider List -

Code: Select all

	<list  vscrollbar-policy="0">

This would not be a dropdown, but would prevent the choice items from dropping below the window.

Cheers,
s

smokey01 wrote:

seaside wrote:smokey01 ,

You might consider List -

Code: Select all

	<list  vscrollbar-policy="0">

This would not be a dropdown, but would prevent the choice items from dropping below the window.

Cheers,
s

The combobox will keep the list contained within the height of screen where the comboboxtext over shoots the screen and looks quite untidy.

I am considering a tree widget as it is quite neat which I guess is similar to the list widget. The only problem with tree and list widgets they take up a lot of real estate. My issue with the combobox is people can edit the selected data which can break things.

See attached for a sneak preview of what I'm working on. It will be in the August newsletter.

#!/bin/sh

eval $(xdotool getmouselocation --shell)

[ -z $GTKDIALOG ] && GTKDIALOG=gtkdialog

TMPDIR=/tmp/gtkdialog/examples/"`basename $0`"
mkdir -p "$TMPDIR"

printf "First item\nSecond item\nThird item\nSmokey item\nWiak's Vodka\nNice Weather\nPuppy Linux\nLast Item" > "$TMPDIR"/inputfile

MAIN_DIALOG='
<window window_position="2" skip_taskbar_hint="true" decorated="false">
	<vbox>
		<list vscrollbar-policy="0">
			<variable>LIST</variable>
			<width>350</width>
			<height>150</height>
			<input file>'"$TMPDIR"'/inputfile</input>
			<output file>'"$TMPDIR"'/outputfile</output>
			<action>echo "The chosen item is "$LIST""</action>
		</list>
	</vbox>
</window>
'
export MAIN_DIALOG

case $1 in
	-d | --dump) echo "$MAIN_DIALOG" ;;
	*) $GTKDIALOG --class smokey --space-expand=true --space-fill=true --program=MAIN_DIALOG 2>/dev/null & gtkdiag_pid=$! ;;
esac

until win_id=$(xdotool search --onlyvisible --class smokey 2>/dev/null); do
	sleep .1
done

xdotool windowmove $win_id $X $Y

xdotool search --onlyvisible --class smokey  behave %@ blur windowkill & xdo_pid=$!

wait $gtkdiag_pid

kill $xdo_pid
exit 0

slippery60 wrote:I thought that if is use just 1 variable "out_dir". After the first entry, a refresh would fix all of the "out_dir" variables and the user would not have to entry the variable again. But that didn't work.
Can this be done? and how?