The nasty combobox...

At first look, a combobox is just a textbox and a button, so this should be an easy one to customize.
Well, there's a lot more under the hood than some people are expecting.
Keyword Items/Item-Bindings.

for now, here's a simple template of a combobox:

As you can see, the dropdrop panel's alpha is reduced to half (transparency effect with gradient), and the "textbox" was merged with the "dropdown-button" to one style.

Code


I know, this is quite often used and not really innovative, however from point of view of a user, the most accepted version.


I will show another example (with animation), which looks "shiny" and "flashy", but lags, when it comes to identification by the user.