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

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 17:22, Bucky Carr <bcarr at purgatoire.org> wrote:

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

We are not talking about Windows programs are we?

Colin


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> 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?
>
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