[Gambas-user] Problem with tableview when in edit mode

[Doriano Blengino]

Charlie Reinl ha scritto:
> Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2009, 18:24 +0100 schrieb Doriano Blengino:
>   
>> Dimitris Anogiatis ha scritto:
>>     
>>> Doriano,
>>>
>>> from the sample project you posted, I can verify the behavior you described
>>> when you use the arrow keys.
>>> If you click on individual cells it jumps fine. But if you try and type
>>> something on one cell and then click on the next one
>>> the text you typed before disappears.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Perhaps this is because there is no "save" event implemented. But the 
>> complain was about another error: even without writing, but simply 
>> changing the focused cell with the cursor keys, do you see something 
>> strange or not?
>>     
>>> So perhaps a few more changes happened in the tableview control from 2.0 to
>>> 2.15 (the one you upgraded to) that are
>>> not yet documented and you just might have to consider using a different
>>> approach.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Which different approach? I would like to identify the cause of this 
>> problem. If it is gambas 2.15, and gambas 2.16 or 2.17 solves, I switch. 
>> If all gambas versions above 2.0.0 have the problem, I stick with 2.0.0. 
>> If the problem are QT libraries, I change them. But surely I don't want 
>> to change a painful code made to compile an invoice through a tableview 
>> with something else...
>>     
>>> I use Debian Lenny 5.0.3 and Gambas 2.16
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>   
>>>       
>> ...it would help if you told me if the error is still there in 2.16 or 
>> not...
>> BTW: my debian version (cat /etc/debian_version) shows 5.0.2, and is 
>> fully updated. How it goes you have 5.0.3?
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>>> Regards,
>>> Dimitris
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Doriano Blengino <
>>> doriano.blengino at ...1909...> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I am modifying an old program, which uses a TableView to construct an
>>>> invoice.
>>>> The tableview is almost always in edit mode.
>>>>
>>>> With gambas version 2.0.0, the original version I used to write the
>>>> program, there is no problem (not this one).
>>>>
>>>> Now I upgraded to gambas v. 2.15 (debian package gambas2 2.15.2-1), running
>>>> on a debian "stable" release.
>>>>
>>>> When in the tableview (in edit mode) I press an arrow key, the cursor slips
>>>> on every possible cell in the request direction, until it finds the end of
>>>> the tableview. But this is not enough: if the cursor key is Left or Right,
>>>> the cell walking goes even further, wrapping to the next or previous row and
>>>> restarting.
>>>>
>>>> I created an executable, and it behaves the same.
>>>>
>>>> Then I copied the executable to another machine, having gbx2 version 2.0.0,
>>>> and the problem does not show up.
>>>>
>>>> The program uses explicitly QT; both machines have libqt-mt.so.3.3.8
>>>> installed, and the same debian "stable" os, and I use both machines from a
>>>> third machine running an X11 server (XMing). So it seems the problem is
>>>> related to gambas.
>>>>
>>>> I send a sample project that shows the problem. Launch the application,
>>>> click on the Tableview to focus it, and press a cursor key. The cursor will
>>>> travel in the requested direction 'til the end of the grid.
>>>>
>>>> What can I do about this? I was very very reluctant to upgrade gambas; but
>>>> I reached a point where I could no more install or upgrade my system. Even
>>>> when trying to install a simple htop(1) from debian repositories, I was told
>>>> to upgrade some fu*ing library, which in turn meant to upgrade gambas, which
>>>> in turn meant to upgrade QT, GTK, poppler, libc, libc-bin... well,
>>>> *hundreds* of packages. I will contact the debian mantainer about this - I
>>>> don't care about postgres, firebird, curl, smtp, opengl, sdl, v4l, xml and
>>>> things. It seems that to install gambas on debian one must pull in all the
>>>> world. The other machine, having the old version of gambas, has no problems
>>>> - I copied the gambas binaries directly, instead of installing them from
>>>> packages. I can install and upgrade, and everything runs smoothly. Sorry for
>>>> the debian-related blow.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Doriano
>>>>     
>>>>         
>
> No same with 
>
> 2.18.0
> Revision: 2447
>
>
>   
Sorry Charlie - I don't understand... "no" what? :-)
Does the cursor travel a lot, or the 2.18 version is exempt (ie, has no 
bug?)?

Thank you,
Doriano