[GRASS-dev] Issues of 6.5 build on WinXP

[Michael Barton]

On Jan 1, 2010, at 2:42 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>> Where is the EVT_TEXT binding? I couldn't find it.
> 
> It's in cmdPanel.__init__() ;)
> 
> In r40168 (trunk), it's at line 1329 of menuform.py.

Thanks. I'll track it down there.

> 
>> This should be run when needed, not while typing.
> 
> That's my opinion. However:
> 
> 1. It requires that combo boxes support a popup event which can be
> used to to populate the list. The user may type a map name then
> immediately click on the button to pop-up the option list; we can't
> assume that there will be an intermediate event such as the map name's
> text field losing focus or the combo box's text field gaining focus.
> 
> 2. If the list is needed even if the user doesn't pop-up the option
> list (e.g. for completion), it may need to be populated when the combo
> box's text field gains focus (or receives its first EVT_TEXT event).

The first thing is to find out what this is supposed to be doing. 

Martin, can you enlighten  us?

Michael