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

[Benoît Minisini]

> > 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
> 
> OK, I understand the problem.
> 
> The TableView is designed so that editing a cell must be decided in the
>  Click event. Otherwise, if the Edit method is not called during a Click
>  event, keyboard events automatically jump them.
> 
> You must call the Edit method inside the Click event, not the GotFocus
>  event.
> 
> Before, keyboard events never ignored cells, so things were working
>  normally.
> 
> Regards,
> 

I filled the documentation with that information for other having the same 
problem.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini