[Gambas-user] no MouseMove() event on GTK

[Bruce Steers]

On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 at 20:11, Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 21/12/2021 à 09:32, bb a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2021-12-21 at 06:13 +0200, Jussi Lahtinen wrote:
> >> This is a bug. GTK and Qt should behave in the same way. I bet it is
> again
> >> due to some GTK oddities.
> >>
> >> Jussi
> >>
> > For the sake of neophytes who may read this thread.
> >
> > This ideal is no longer true. Both the behaviour and visuals of many
> > controls are no longer the "same" across all GUIs. A quick look at the
> > ComboBox control can illustrate many differences.
> >
> > This comment came about because I was trying to come to an understanding
> > of the event chain for ComboBoxes under the different GUIs. Here is an
> > extract of my test record.
> >
> >
> > While the ideal is laudible, I don't see how we can expect the controls
> > to display and behave "the same" anymore.
> >
> > Anyway, have a very safe and merry Yule.
> >
> > b
> >
> > p.s. @BruceS, sorry for thread theft!
>
> By the way, it's a very good idea to make this chart.
>
> As I already said, but I will say it again with more precision :
>
> 1) QT and GTK+ should have the same -behaviour- as much as possible, so
> that any GUI program can work with one or the other.
>
> 2) I have almost no control on the widget native drawing, so you will
> have visual differences.
>
> 3) Sometimes, the previous constraint leads to behaviour differences.
> For example, the ComboBox border: some widget themes ignore the request
> to remove its border. Or the Button background color: sometimes, it is
> ignored. And sometimes I can workaround these things (by replacing
> native widgets by widgets made with Gambas for example), but most of the
> time I can't.
>
> As the full Gambas IDE can run with 'gb.gtk3' (even if some little
> quirks remain), I think that the situation is not so bad.
>
> For the pessimistic people, don't worry. GTK+4 is here, and I'm sure it
> will break ton of things in the 'gb.gtk3' component.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>

OpenSuse ships with qt6 too  , should be fun :-/

Respects
BruceS
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