Re: ComboBox in TableView no longer works

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 24 mai 05 à 20:08, Andreas Höschler a écrit :

> Hello,
>
> about a year ago combo boxes in a tableView worked (thanks to  
> Fred). After a recent CVS update this functionality is gone again.  
> I have attached a very simple test program to demonstrate this. On  
> Mac OS X the combo pops open if the button of the combo is clicked.  
> On GNUstep this no longer works. Is anybody aware of the changes  
> that were made during the last months that could cause this loss of  
> functionality?

Hi Andreas,

I don't remember precisely the whole story now. But IIRC I would say  
combo boxes never worked in table view, because table view had and  
still has a broken cell support. However in June 2004 Fred committed  
a patch which improved combo box and a bit cell support in table  
view, then combo boxes inside table view seemed to work in some  
special cases. Later I discovered standalone combo boxes weren't  
usable anymore, this issue was the result of Fred's patch. When I  
tracked the bug origin, I came to this conclusion : to have both  
standalone and embedded combo boxes working would involve rewriting  
table view cell support (very complicated task). That's why I decided  
it was better to support first standalone combo boxes and not  
embedded until I or somebody may find some time to fix cell support  
in table view.

Quentin.

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