On Friday 21 November 2003 3:34 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:36:53AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > You missed out *why* the core needs such fake move events. I > > > understand the answer, but I do not know the question. "42" isn't > > > good enoough for me :) > > > > The primary example is "select some text with the mouse and, with the > > mouse button still pressed, move the cursor beneath the LyX screen". > > Ah OK. Yes, this is fine, it's been a bug with the qt frontend for a > while. > > We can certainly do this but i'd rather have a separate event > stillWantScroll or whatever. Also, for maximum usefulness, the amount > scrolled shoould be proportional to the distance that the pointer is > away from the bottom or top of the screen. > > > More generally, selecting text with the mouse, even with the cursor > > still in the LyX window, is a right, royal pain in the arse. > > > > 2. If the timer is running the discard events passed to QContentPane's > > MouseMove slot. This should make 'normal' selection much more > > controllable. > > Perhaps, yeah. I suppose it would do. But I still think we need the > separate event for the case above
I'll have a play next week. Off to Snowdonia for a weekend of survival training. As y'do. Angus
