Re: [MACTCL] Tablelist irritations...

[Jerry L. <jer...@gm...>]

On Apr 7, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Bernhard Spinnler wrote:

> On 02.04.2011, at 19:45, Jerry LeVan wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Unfortunately the combo box (frame ) does not receive focus ie the scroll bar
>> is grayed out, the window (of the combo box) does not allow resizing and the dots
>> in the frame are gray...
>> 
>> Fortunately the *interior* of the combo box can be scrolled with the mouse and clicked on
>> to select an item.
>> 
>> In order to dismiss the combo box I have to click in the cell being edited and do
>> a control-return to end the editing.
>> 
>> Does anyone know of a fix? Is this an apple tcl problem or is it something a bit
>> deeper? ( ie does this problem go away with with active states tcl?)
>> 
>> I have attached a scrollbar to the table and a couple of times the down
>> arrow of the scrollbar has appeared to get stuck in the 'on' state and
>> cause the app to eventually crash.
>> 
> 
> Jerry,
> 
> I'm afraid I cannot help you with your problem. Just wanted to add that I had a similar problem with scrollbars not reacting any longer when switching between tabs of a BWidget notebook. Scrollbars here are children of a BWidget ScrollableFrame. You might want to search for "BWidget: Scrollbars on notebook tabs cease to respond" to read the whole story. Unfortunately, there was no response. Perhaps, there are not that many people using BWidgets on the Mac?
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Bernhard
> 
> 
Fortunately Brian Oakley's ComboBox works well in my app :)

The tablelist author has outlined for me how to implement a popup menu on a column. I think that might
be the best way for a quick cell edit for a fixed number of choices (that cannot be mis-spelled ).

Thanks for the interest...

Jerry