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 <bc...@purgatoire.org
<mailto:bc...@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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