[Gambas-user] Mouse X & Y reporting...

[T Lee Davidson]

On 11/13/23 11:46, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 11/12/23 10:03, sbungay wrote:
>>    I've been struggling with dragging data from a TreeView to a Text Area, and I THINK I've found the source of the frustration.
>>
>>    Both the TreeView and TextArea have Tracking enabled. So everything is OK there.
>>
>>    The Drag begins and the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y coordinates are given relative to where it was in the TreeView when that event 
>> fires. Lets say the values are, respectively, 21 and 88. Dragging the text from the TreeView to the position in the TextArea 
>> where it needs to be inserted it ALWAYS inserts it in the wrong spot, and the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y remain set at 21 and 88, 
>> which explains why insertion did not take place at the desired location.
>>
>>   Shouldn't the Mouse.X and Mouse.Y be updated to the coordinates of the pointer relative to the control over which the drop 
>> occurred?
>>
> 
> You shouldn't need to use Tracking and Mouse.X/Y to drop text into a TextArea at the position you desire. Notice that the 
> TextArea's text cursor follows the mouse cursor. Just position the mouse over where you want to drop the text and let go of the 
> mouse button. If you want the text on a new line use "TextArea1.Insert(gb.NewLine & Drag.Data)".
> 
> 

Corrections:

The TextArea text cursor follows the mouse cursor only with the Qt toolkit and not using GTK3.


-- 
Lee

Also, Benoît, the DragMove event *does* fire with the GTK3 toolkit.