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Author Re: How do I select an item form the combobox and get the new selected
Donal K. Fellows

2005-07-27, 9:04 am

Ian Bell wrote:
> This is more a GUI design question than a tcl. First you need to define when
> you think the user thinks he/she has 'selected' an item. The usual way to
> do this is to associate a button (labeled Aplly for example) with the combo
> box. Pressing this button reads the current selection from the combo box.


Many uses of combo-boxes don't do this (e.g. font selectors in word
processors, various places in HTML forms).

Donal.
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