fxruby users - Jan 2008 - Combobox

Hi,

I''ve got a little problem  with the comboboxes. I want to provide a  
search where the user enters a word into the combobox and the program  
runs a mysqlsearch and returns the result in the comboboxlist. While  
the user enters a searchword or moves up or down within the list, it  
is necessary that the list opens itself without a manual click on the  
button. That''s exactly my problem.
I was able to implement the search, but I don''t know how I can make  
the list popup. There is a method paneShown?, but no showPane. Then I  
found the method popup (from FXPopup), but I don''t know how I can use  
it.

An example for a search I want to build is the url bar in a browser.

thanks
Tobias Schmidt

On Sunday 13 January 2008 05:02:04 am Tobi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I''ve got a little problem  with the comboboxes. I want to provide
a
> search where the user enters a word into the combobox and the program  
> runs a mysqlsearch and returns the result in the comboboxlist. While  
> the user enters a searchword or moves up or down within the list, it  
> is necessary that the list opens itself without a manual click on the  
> button. That''s exactly my problem.
> I was able to implement the search, but I don''t know how I can
make
> the list popup. There is a method paneShown?, but no showPane. Then I  
> found the method popup (from FXPopup), but I don''t know how I can
use
> it.
> 
> An example for a search I want to build is the url bar in a browser.

OK, I will add some API''s to FXComboBox to post the menu
programmatically;
this will be in FOX 1.7, of course.



		- Jeroen