Tcombobox under Linux. Can not autoselect with multiple characters.

[han]

I'm using Tcombox with many entries. Typing multiple characters to autoselect works fine underWindows. But under Linux you can type only one character. This doesn't work for me since many of the items start with the same 000-.

Is there a way to get the same behavior under Linux? So to type more then one character for autoselect? See screenshot under Windows and attached code example.

Han

[JuhaManninen]

Linux is a kernel. TCombobox is implemented by a widgetset. I guess you use GTK2. Please test with QT5, too. It works better in many details.

[han]

I have tried widget set QT5 and GTK2 & 3 and they all behave the same. You can type only one character. If you type it one more time it stay at one character and the list scrolls one position down. But you can't type 000- as in Windows.

[paweld]

In GTK2, it will work only if you disable the AutoDropDown property.

[han]

In GTK2, it will work only if you disable the AutoDropDown property.

Thanks. yes then it works with autocomplete. Okay that is a workable solution.


I just tested in macOS Cocoa and with the latest trunk the autocomplete works as in Windows with the autoDropDown property checked.

It this Tcombobox behavior depended on the Linux widgets or could it be modified in the FPC code? If it is FPC I could raise an issue.