Re: [Tile-dev] Feature Request: combobox text field mousewheel binding

[Brian G. <bgr...@mo...>]

Jeff Hobbs wrote:

>>>>>Another feature which IMHO should be part of tile.
>>>>>When the text field has the focus, moving the mouse wheel should 
>>>>>change
>>>>>the selection. Windows XP combos work this way.
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Not always a good thing. I have a number of people raising a
>>>>bug on our bugzilla installation that an accidental slip of 
>>>>the mouse wheel in the wrong place can cause mail to be sent 
>>>>to everyone.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>misfeature or not, it is dangerous to go against standards.
>>>      
>>>
>>Standard or no, I think this is just plain broken.  I can't tell you how 
>>many times a day I mouse wheel over a different panel only to have some 
>>combo box scroll instead because that is where the focus is.  If the 
>>pointer was over the combo box, it would be one thing, but the pointer 
>>is often on the other side of the screen as are my eyes.
>>    
>>
>
>I will have to disagree on the misfeature, as I have used it
>myself intentionally, as well as having been caught by it.
>However, you have to look at the design of the widget to see
>that the mousewheel behavior is 100% appropriate.  It is the
>same as a 1-line listbox, and you would want to take away
>mousewheel from a listbox, would you?
>  
>

No, but M$ really needs to fix the Mouse Wheel/Pointer problem. 

I guess my point is M$ can get things wrong also.  Just because they do 
something some way doesn't make it a standard.

-Brian

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