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NAME

Tk::BrowseEntry - entry widget with popup choices.

SYNOPSIS 

    use Tk::BrowseEntry;


    $b = $frame->BrowseEntry(-label => "Label", -variable => \$var);
    $b->insert("end", "opt1");
    $b->insert("end", "opt2");
    $b->insert("end", "opt3");
    ...
    $b->pack;

DESCRIPTION

BrowseEntry is a poor man's ComboBox. It may be considered an enhanced version of LabEntry which provides a button to popup the choices of the possible values that the Entry may take. BrowseEntry supports all the options LabEntry supports except -textvariable. This is replaced by -variable. Other options that BrowseEntry supports.

-listwidth
Specifies the width of the popup listbox.

-variable
Specifies the variable in which the entered value is to be stored.

METHODS

insert(index, string)
Inserts the text of string at the specified index. This string then becomes available as one of the choices.

BUGS

BrowseEntry should really provide more of the ComboBox options.

There should be a way to delete entries which have been previously inserted.

AUTHOR

Rajappa Iyer rsi@ziplink.net

This code was inspired by ComboBox.tcl in Tix4.0 by Ioi Lam and bears more than a passing resemblance to ComboBox code. This may be distributed under the same conditions as Perl.