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This bug is iTunes should use real combo boxes in its Info dialogs. It was filed on 2007-04-06 at 23:48 PDT.
Summary:
iTunes’ Info dialogs use a separate text field and pop-up menu, rather than a proper combo box.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Select one or more tracks.
- Get Info on them.
- Switch to the Info tab.
Expected Results:
The control to input the Genre is a single combo box.
Actual Results:
The controls to input the Genre are a text field and pop-up menu, arranged to fake a combo box.
Regression:
HIComboBox was introduced in version 10.2 of Mac OS X; iTunes should have used a combo box since approximately that time. The fake combo box has always been wrong on Windows, as it has always had real combo boxes (in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Windows pop-up menu that wasn’t a combo box, except that the text-field part was not always editable).
Versions of iTunes prior to Mac OS X 10.2, as well as to iTunes’ support for Windows, didn’t have a real combo box either, but since there wasn’t a real combo box for it to use, this wasn’t a problem.
Notes:
Yes, I am a nitpicker.