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Hello,
as I posted about before ( http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=938 ), I've been writing a widget similar to the GtkCombo widget, except mine is just an entry, not an entry with a button. It catches a "keyletter" signal when the specified letter is typed at the entry, and that's the equivalent of the GtkButton in a GtkCombo.

The sources are here:
http://tdreblen.googlepages.com/pupwin.c
http://tdreblen.googlepages.com/pupwin.h

An example program is here:
http://tdreblen.googlepages.com/example.c

I would like people to test it and let me know if there are any problems. Also please let me know if it seems too specific, because I did write it for a project that I'm doing by myself. Also, for the text_column property, I didn't know what I should put for the maximum, is there a max amount of columns that can be put in a tree view that should be put there?

Lastly, I licensed it under LGPL v2 like GTK so it would be compatible, the source gives a URL for the LGPL text, but here it is also:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/library.txt

I hope this is useful for someone. Thank you...

Just as an FYI, though I'm sure you're already aware, but is sounds similar to http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/GtkEntryCompletion.html.

Is this the intention? To implement a sort of autocomplete? Or just to have a single letter trigger the combo box regardless of what's inside?

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Yes, I was aware of the entry completion widget, and yes, my intention was to make a sort of auto complete. However, my intention was to allow you to type something in (e.g. "A:") then have suggestions in relation to the 'A' char, whereas with the entry completion, I don't think you can have a prefix (e.g. have something like "A:Atom B:") and have it pop up for the 'B' that was pressed, not just look for entries that start with 'A:At...' then complete from there.
I wrote this for a Taxonomy program that I'm writing, and I wanted to have a list of predefined kingoms, phyla etc. so my "keyletter" callback looks for K, P, etc. then loads a list of the proper classifications. This was the purpose it was written, and that's why I asked if it seemed to specific.
I appreciate your comment, thank you...