[Gambas-user] Documentation glitch with Iconview ?

[Benoit Minisini]

On mardi 8 janvier 2008, manuel viet wrote:
> Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > On mardi 8 janvier 2008, manuel viet wrote:
> >> I was playing with an IconView (toolkit qt), and realized
> >> it'd be cool to know when mouse would be over it, and
> >> where (to know it was hovering over an item or the
> >> background) ; the MouseMove event looked perfect and
> >> the wiki says that this event is called "only when
> >> button1 is down, except for some complex controls like
> >> Icon & List View ". So I tried, and for me MouseMove is
> >> raised only if button1 is depressed while moving.
> >
> > You really mean that you don't get MouseMove events if the first button
> > is pressed ?
>
> Oups, my mistake ; no, I only get them if the button is *pressed*
> of course. As with any other control.
>
> >> If I
> >> change the IconView to a ListView,  the MouseMove
> >> event is raised anytime the mouse, indeed, moves inside
> >> the control area, as expected. So I'm afraid the wiki is
> >> not up to date. Side question : how can I do this kind of
> >> 'tracking' inside this control (if possible at all) ?
> >
> > Actually you should not be able to do that, because it depends heavily on
> > the
> > internal implementation of the IconView. If you need an IconView with
> > mouse
> > tracking, and other functions I imagine, maybe you should implement your
> > own
> > one.
>
> That's what I was fearing *sigh* !! (my idea was to use
> the IV as a 'corckboard' to stick notes. Hovering over
> a note would have "magnified" it magicaly to peruse the
> contents, one click and hop, edit mode.)Why can't I be a
> reasonable guy and be happy with what already exists ?
> Trouble is I'm completely illiterate when it comes to c++
> and qt ; I can do some good C/GTK+, but I really don't
> have much time to self-teach myself a whole new
> language. That's the reason why I like Gambas : the
> learning curve is smooth and I already know a fair bit
> of Basic to begin with (we've had the same kind of
> computing background, except that instead of going on,
> at a point I chose to study law science).
>
>
> -----
> --
> Manuel Viet

You can do your iconview in Gambas by starting from a DrawingArea. It could 
even be better than the QT one that has many bugs. :-)

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini