[wxruby-users] wxComboBox and wxTE_PROCESS_ENTER

[Fabio Petrucci]

Hi Alex & Mario,

i am working on an invoice form, where the user should be able to fill
fields using mainly tab, numeric keys and confirm by enter on every field
he's working on. The basic reason for that, is the user should only type on
the keyboard avoiding as much as possible using mouse for speed reason.


On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Mario Steele <mario at ruby-im.net> wrote:

> The problem lies in the fact, that Wx::ComboBox has a Drop down, and a Text
> Edit in it.


right.


> I believe that Fabio wants the Enter event, so that he can add what a
> person enters into the Drop Down, if I am understanding correctly.


Basically i use Enter to validate user input


> The best thing to do, is to monitor evt_keypress


Is ComboBox able to trigger keypress event??

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to> wrote:
>
>> Fabio Petrucc
>>  The fact that setting this style when the control is created suggests to
>> me that it's not really meant  to work like that, and I don't understand
>> what you're trying to do here. Why do you want a ComboBox that processes
>> ENTER?
>>
>
The above user inserts hundreds of products a day and he knows exactly what
vat code to use for that kind of product, without having to choose from a
dropdown menu. The ENTER is to confirm what he typed.

ComboBox let you do that quite well standardizing behaviour between fields.


>> I don't know. I expect if the control is told to consume ENTER, it also
>> consumes TAB.
>>
>>
Unfortunately, on ComboBox, if you enable enter you loose the opportunity to
use the tab

thank you both.

bio.
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