[KDE-India] Setting Value-Label pair for Combo box

[Aditya Mooley]

On 3/24/06, Rajeev J Sebastian <rajeev_jsv at dinamis.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 March 2006 17:12, Aditya Mooley wrote:
> > On 3/24/06, Rajeev J Sebastian <rajeev_jsv at dinamis.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday 24 March 2006 16:24, Aditya Mooley wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to have Value-Label pair in KComboBox like we have in
> > >
> > > HTML
> > >
> > > > SELECT Element?
> > > >
> > > > I searched the KDE docs for the same but didn't found anything.
> > >
> > > Subclass the Combobox and use a dictionary (QMap). Labels (combo
> items)
> > > are
> > > unique in a combobox, and can be mapped to values.
> >
> > It is not possible to keep labels unique in my case. Looks like I have
> to
> > drop the idea of using Combo box and start using ListView instead.
> If the label is not unique, then the user is going to find it difficult to
> use
> the application. So, you would have to add another disambiguating element,
> perhaps another column of text or an icon. The combination of the 2 has to
> be
> unique, in which case you can use a QMap.

Actually, I was looking for something like OPTGROUP and OPTION like in HTML
SELECT box. This seems impossible with KCombo.

That's why I planned to shift to ListView.

Regards,
> Rajeev J Sebastian
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