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

[Steve Cohen]

On 2/5/19 11:33 AM, Bucky Carr wrote:
Well, I am not using the Windows version and this behavior is unlike 
anything I ever saw when I did use Windows.

> 
> 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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