Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] Problem with interface name in Ethereal on Win dows 2000

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From: Coleman Brumley <cbrumley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:55:28 -0500
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 05:45 PM
>To: Dinesh G Dutt
>Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problem with interface name in 
>Ethereal on Windows 2000
>
>
>On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:38:27PM -0800, Dinesh G Dutt wrote:
>> Guy Harris writes:
>>  > Note that if you type something into the field and then use the 
>> Enter  > key, it might just display the drop-down list - but if you 
>> tab out of  > the field and *then* use Enter, it should 
>work. This was 
>> the problem. I hit ENTER instead of TAB.
>
>The same problem exists on UNIX/X.
>
>> This is very unintuitive,
>
>Yes.
>
>The Windows combo box does *not* appear to treat Enter as an 
>indication that it should display the drop-down list.  I don't 
>know whether there is a key that *is* a request to display the 
>list; you can cycle through the entries in the list that begin 
>with a given letter by typing that letter, at least for 
>non-editable combo boxes, but I don't know how you can get to 
>see the entire list.

It's a key combination in Windows:  Alt-Down Arrow.

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