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From: Jeff H. <je...@ac...> - 2006-09-27 02:51:30
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Joe English wrote: > > I used the keywords "single"/"multiple" because that seems more=20 > > intuitive than "browse"/"extended" (even though the behavior is = closer=20 > > to what the core listbox calls the latter). >=20 > Addendum: consistency with Tk important for Tile, except for=20 > the (rare) areas where Tk's design itself is flawed; and I've=20 > never liked the single/multiple/browse/extended scheme. >=20 > This was apparently copied from the Motif XmList widget=20 > (which I've always suspected originally just had "single" and=20 > "multiple" modes that didn't work very well so "browse" and=20 > "extended" got added later as "unbreak-my-program" options. =20 > But maybe that's just me...) But it's now more than just listbox. It's tktable, treectrl, bwidgets, = ... If it were one, then it's 50/50, but this would be 1 anomaly out of 5 = similar. Jeff |