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

Bucky Carr bcarr at purgatoire.org
Tue Feb 5 12:33:25 EST 2019


Isn't GNUcash a Windows program? :)

The OP said that "other programs don't do this". I was pointing out 
that the observed behavior is evident in other programs as well, and I 
just happened to mention the "other programs" are Windows programs, 
too, just like GNUcash is a Windows (and other platform) program.

On 2/5/2019 10:27 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 17:22, Bucky Carr <bcarr at purgatoire.org 
> <mailto:bcarr at purgatoire.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     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
>
>
>
>     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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