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Mouse wheel and combobox
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From
08/10/2006 17:47:44
 
 
To
08/10/2006 17:45:52
Dragan Nedeljkovich
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
General information
Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01160332
Message ID:
01160419
Views:
15
>>>>>What bothers me is the outdated way that a combobox deals with the wheel of a mouse. Modern applications support scrolling with the mouse wheel much better.
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyone has suggestions for handcoded improvements?
>>>>
>>>>What is it that you don´t like and how do you think it should behave?
>>>
>>>It should scroll when you roll the wheel. Just like most of the comboboxes in other apps do, including those in browsers.
>>
>>You hit the nail! That's exactly what I expect from a combobox/listbox. In some (some?) areas VFP really is an outdated interface. Perceived from this POV, it's no wonder that other languages have become more popular.
>
>It wasn't fixed in the last five versions. I'm not holding my breath for VFP9 SP2.

Is the current behavior a bug, in your eyes?
Groet,
Peter de Valença

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