text-input-choice: text vs selected-item

Hi,

I wonder how text-input-choice is supposed to be used wrt reading the ”value”.

Looking at the example at
(example-edit-file "capi/elements/text-input-choice.lisp")

- If I type in ”Item 1”, the selected-item slot is not updated, only the text-input-pane-text slot
- If I choose ”Item 1” in the drowdown list using the mouse, selected-item and text-input-pane-text is updated
- However if I press the down key and navigate to an item using the keyboard, selected-item is updated but NOT text-input-pane-text!
- Pressing Return/Enter or leaving the control with Tab still does not update text-input-pane-text
- Giving back the focus to the text-input-choice updates text-input-pane-text

This was observed on Cocoa, I haven’t tested it on other platforms yet

But AFAICT, there is no reliable way to get the value that is actually displayed on screen – is this a bug, or am I missing something?

(A possible workaround could be to use :callback and :change-callback to update a variable and later read that variable, but I haven’t tested that yet)

Erik



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