Parent has been down voted to oblivion but they make a good point - arguments over words and names seldom produce any interesting discussion or definitive conclusions.
Re:Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
by thrower123 on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:11PM
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/comb...
The Win32 API is going to continue to drive naming conventions when all of us are dead.
But yeah, the difference between a combobox, a listbox, and a dropdownlist is just a flag value.
Re:Egui: An easy-to-use immediate mode GUI
by karmakaze on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:29PM
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There's actually a separate ListBox control. And I never thought of it at the time, but why does an option turn a ComboBox into a DropDownComboBox, but an option doesn't turn a ListBox into a DropDownListBox? Oh no, it's all coming back to me, because ComboBoxes were added later and rather than change ListBox they added DropDownList functionality to ComboBox.
I also don't see an option in ListBox to make it multi-select, was it all horribly done in the notification handling code?
They can call it whatever they want?
> A dropdown list is not a combo box
Who says?