[Gambas-user] combobox no longer scrolls with the mousewheel

BB adamnt42 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 7 23:59:27 CEST 2023


On 8/10/23 6:50 am, T Lee Davidson wrote:
> On 10/7/23 13:00, BB wrote:
>>
>> On 8/10/23 12:03 am, Safiur Rahman wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Any input control should not get value without explicit input 
>>> initiation. To write anything in Textbox, TextArea, Checkbox, 
>>> Radiobutton or any other you have to either click the control or use 
>>> spacebar/Tab to get focus and only then you can put value.
>>>
>>> The Read-write combobox getting value without click/focus on control 
>>> and just by mouse wheel scroll over it caused unintended input of 
>>> values and put us in dangerous situation for production level 
>>> applications. If you have a combobox in form and you have a mouse 
>>> with scroll wheel then you don't know what value the combobox will get.
>>>
>>> Check this video: http://safiur.com.np/gambas/combobox.webm 
>>> <http://safiur.com.np/gambas/combobox.webm>
>>> For example, I wrote something in the second combobox. Now I am at 
>>> the centre of the second combobox. I want to go to the last combobox 
>>> to write something leaving other comboboxes in between empty. How 
>>> will I? If I scroll the mouse wheel to move the scrollview content 
>>> area, the empty comboboxes will be filled. So I have to click scroll 
>>> view slider on the right and drag it to bottom taking care no mouse 
>>> scroll occurs while doing it.
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards
>>> Safiur Rahman
>>>
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>>
>> This is nothing to do with what I am talking about.
>>
>> b
>
> How is it nothing to do with it?
>
> In your very first message, you said, "I used to be able to use the 
> mouse wheel to scroll through combobox
> lists." Safiur is also talking about (inadvertently) scrolling through 
> the combobox list with the mouse wheel.
>
Because he is talking about scrolling a scrollview and inadvertantly 
changing a combobox and I am talking about deliberately trying to change 
a combobox by using the mouse wheel in it.



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