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Walt Mankowski wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:08:31PM -0500, Dave Turner wrote:
> > This is no more than the size of a font menu. The cow-orker I randomly
> > polled had 347. Since they're alphabetical, it's not hard to find the
> > one you need. I may also put the most-recently-used at the top, like a
> > font thingy in Word. Is there a widget that acts at all like that
> > widget? It's like a combo box, but it has different semantics.
>
> I checked Word, IE, and Netscape, and each of them use a listbox
> widget, not the menu, to select fonts. That font thingy in Word is,
> in win32 terminology, an "owner-draw" listbox, meaning that the
> programmer is overriding the default appearence to display different
> fonts and to draw a line below the most recently used fonts at the top
> of the box. I don't know enough about gtk to know if they support
> anything like that.
>
I'll look into it, thanks. Probably, GTK can do it but GTK-Perl can't,
so I'll have to use a combo-box or an embedded heirarchical menu.
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-Dave Turner Stalk me: (215)-545-2859
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