fxruby users - Jul 2006 - Selected text background color in a combobox question

Dear all,

when I select an item from a combobox (and release it and
''leave'' the combobox), the text in it gets marked by a
background color.
I would like to set this color to FXRGB(255,255,255).
How do I do this ?


Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,

Axel Etzold
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On Friday 14 July 2006 03:43, Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> when I select an item from a combobox (and release it and
''leave'' the combobox), the text in it gets marked by a
background color.
> I would like to set this color to FXRGB(255,255,255).
> How do I do this ?
Don''t use a FXComboBox if what you really need is a FXListBox. 
FXComboBox
is in principle a widget that gives you a text string from a list of strings,
with possible text-entry [non-static mode].  It shows the selected text
because it actually has an embedded text field, and the text that you select
is, well..., selected!!

FXListBox is a widget that gives you a choice [0...N] from a list of labeled
choices.  It is often a better idea to use FXListBox since picking from a
list of choices is far more common.


Hope this helps,


			- Jeroen

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Dear Jeroen,

thank you for responding. Unfortunately, you did not
  answer to my question at all :(

I know of both FXComboBox and FXlistBox.
I am quite happy with FXComboBox now, and I would not
be happier with an FXListBox with the problem I have. 

If you select an entry in an FXCombobox, and then leave 
that box, the text of the entry gets a greyish background
color.
As one then  moves on to another FXcombobox (if there
  is one), and changes that one as well, this greyish background
color of the text of the selection of the first FXCombobox disappears.

Now I would like to have it disappear right away, because it
looks ugly to have one greyish background color behind a text
all the time, if you change something on the original configuration.
  
I have tried to use setSetBackColor, setHiliteColor, setShadowColor
on the FXTextField children of FXCombobox, but none worked.



I suggest that it should be a standard behavior of FXListbox and
FXCombobox that there is no background color of the text of the
selected item, at least this color should disappear after the user
"leaves" this widget.

How do I achieve this behavior ?
  
Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Axel Etzold




-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:08:35 -0500
Von: Jeroen van der Zijp <jeroen at fox-toolkit.org>
An: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org
Betreff: Re: [fxruby-users] Selected text background color in a combobox
question
> On Friday 14 July 2006 03:43, Axel Etzold wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > when I select an item from a combobox (and release it and
''leave'' the
> combobox), the text in it gets marked by a background color.
> > I would like to set this color to FXRGB(255,255,255).
> > How do I do this ?
> 
> Don''t use a FXComboBox if what you really need is a FXListBox. 
FXComboBox
> is in principle a widget that gives you a text string from a list of
> strings,
> with possible text-entry [non-static mode].  It shows the selected text
> because it actually has an embedded text field, and the text that you
> select
> is, well..., selected!!
> 
> FXListBox is a widget that gives you a choice [0...N] from a list of
> labeled
> choices.  It is often a better idea to use FXListBox since picking from a
> list of choices is far more common.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 
> 			- Jeroen
> 
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On Friday 14 July 2006 10:33, Axel Etzold wrote:
> Dear Jeroen,
> 
> thank you for responding. Unfortunately, you did not
>   answer to my question at all :(
Well, I was basically explaing that that''s how I think the combobox 
should behave...

> I know of both FXComboBox and FXlistBox.
> I am quite happy with FXComboBox now, and I would not
> be happier with an FXListBox with the problem I have. 
> 
> If you select an entry in an FXCombobox, and then leave 
> that box, the text of the entry gets a greyish background
> color.
> As one then  moves on to another FXcombobox (if there
>   is one), and changes that one as well, this greyish background
> color of the text of the selection of the first FXCombobox disappears.
> 
> Now I would like to have it disappear right away, because it
> looks ugly to have one greyish background color behind a text
> all the time, if you change something on the original configuration.
>   
> I have tried to use setSetBackColor, setHiliteColor, setShadowColor
> on the FXTextField children of FXCombobox, but none worked.
> 
> 
> 
> I suggest that it should be a standard behavior of FXListbox and
> FXCombobox that there is no background color of the text of the
> selected item, at least this color should disappear after the user
> "leaves" this widget.
> 
> How do I achieve this behavior ?
The simplest way is to set the text:


	combo->setText(combo->getText());


I believe that should do it.

Of course, if anything else gets selected, the text field will lose the
selection as well.


	- Jeroen


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