[wxMSW,wxGTK] wxChoice, height of dropdown list

[Carsten A. Arnholm]

Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:52:14 +0100 "Carsten A. Arnholm"
> <arnholm at offline.no> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to specify the max height of the wxChoice drop-down
>> list, independent of the number of contained entries?
>
> No, there is nothing for this currently. Under MSW we could implement
> such function but I'm not sure if it can be done in wxGTK at all.

Hi again,

I have been playing with the idea of creating another control, almost 
identical to wxChoice, but it would always use a wxListBox as the drop down, 
so that the height of the drop down could be managed on any platform (using 
wxListBox::SetSize)

I was thinking the new control could inherit from wxChoice and create a 
wxListBox on top of other windows in a handler for wxEVT_LEFT_DOWN.

Would this be a bad idea? Or maybe it has been done before?

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Carsten A. Arnholm
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