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

[Bruce Steers]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 16:47, T Lee Davidson <t.lee.davidson at gmail.com>
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)".
>

That's only QT TextArea does that though.  (a much much simpler way for
sure)

But with GTK the cursor stays where it is.

Respects
BruceS
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