[GNC] "Non-sticky" scroll bars in gnucash registers

[Bucky Carr]

I've noticed that exact behavior in many other Windows programs as 
well. Definitely annoying.


On 2/5/2019 9:53 AM, Steve Cohen wrote:
> For two years something seemed not quite right about the use of 
> scroll bars in Gnucash register windows, but I always just "lived 
> with it" in a state of vague , not quite conscious annoyance.
>
> I have finally put my finger on the problem.
>
> When I click in the scroller and move my mouse, whenever the mouse 
> leaves the scroll bar area the display snaps back to where it was 
> before the scroll operation.  I initially tried to carefully keep 
> the mouse within the scroll bar area, and that does prevent the 
> display from snapping back - but my new ephiphany is this:  If I do 
> manage not to stray from the bounds of the scroll bar before 
> releasing the mouse button, then the display stays where my 
> scrolling action left it BUT, the moment I subsequently move the 
> mouse out of the scroll bar area, the display snaps to its previous 
> position.  In particular this makes it impossible to edit an entry 
> that was out of the visible scrolling area but became visible after 
> scrolling, as it is gone before I can click it.  The only way to get 
> to a row not visible is by using the arrow keys or PgUp, PgDown.  
> Ironically, pressing those keys does move the scroller.
>
> I am running GNUCash version 3.900, which I built from source on 
> 2018-06-03 on Ubuntu 18.04.
>
> This is highly irritating and non-standard behavior, I think. Other 
> apps do not handle scrolling this way, such as the Thunderbird Mail 
> inbox, Libre Office Calc, etc.  I was not able to find a setting 
> that would govern this behavior.  Do others experience this, or is 
> it a bug?