Topic: Editable dropdown?

Is it possible to have an editable dropdown widget?

Wanted behavior of such an "dropdowneditbox":
A dropdown shows initially nothing. If one enters a (valid) text into the dropdowneditbox the list of dropdown-entries will get an an additional entry of the just entered text. So the more text get entered the more entries the dropdown will have. Preferably without double entries, that is: If the entered text is always in the dropdown entry-list, it will not be added again. Somehow a self-learning widget.

I came across this idea by using the "Copy area" addon: Often i needed values (x- and y-coordinates) which were just used some time ago. In the current implementation you have to

1. Recognize the value
2. Fiddle with the spinbox buttons (which is cumbersome anyway)

to use this value again. If the spinboxes will be exchanged with dropdowneditboxes one can enter values and/or choose a previous entered value.

Did i overlooked such a widget?

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Ah, that's a good idea

I have trouble to get an image on the button of the dropdown if it is of type "pictorial_menu", the button remains always empty. The doc says:

• "pictorial_menu": The shown icon remains always unchanged.

Where has this icon to be set? Or: To which icon "shown icon" refers? Applying an icon to the dropdown entries works, but the button is still blank. Trying to set an icon for in the main dropdown definition also doesn't work.

Codesnipped for testing, see attachment for the whole test addon)

               {
                  widget = "dropdown",
                  name   = "distance_x_dropdown",
                  label  = "",
                  icon = "images/ui_basic/scrollbar_down.png",      --doesn't work
                  button_dimension = 24,
                  button_style = "primary",
                  type   = "pictorial_menu",
                  datatype = "string",
                  entries = {
                     {
                        label = "1. entry",
                        value = 1,
                        select = true,
                        icon = "images/ui_basic/scrollbar_down.png"  -- doesn't work for the button
                     },
                     {
                        label = "2. entry",
                        value = 2,
                        select = false,
                        -- icon = "images/ui_basic/scrollbar_down.png"
                     },
                     {
                        label = "3. entry",
                        value = 3,
                        select = false,
                        -- icon = "images/ui_basic/scrollbar_down.png"
                     },
                  },
               },

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Thanks, glad that i didn't overlooked something again

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