[pygtk] Combobox with thousands of rows

[Rob Brown-Bayliss]

Hi.  

I need a way to let users pick one of approx 8000 names from a list and
had thought to use a combobox but it is far too slow taking several
seconds to pop up, and scrolling is unusable.

Does any one have an idea or solution that does not take up too much
screen space.

here is the code I was usign to load the list:

		custs = self.DB.select("SELECT CAST(Customer_Key as TEXT), CAST(Name
as Text) FROM Customer Order By Name")
                cust_list =
gtk.ListStore(gobject.TYPE_STRING,gobject.TYPE_STRING)
		if custs != None:
			for c in custs:
				n = c[1].strip()
				row = (unicode(n),c[0])
				cust_list.append(row)       	
		self.customer.set_model(cust_list)	



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