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Re: scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll
From: |
Gerd Moellmann |
Subject: |
Re: scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll |
Date: |
29 Jul 2002 12:51:26 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll has no doc string; it needs one. More
> importantly, I am concerned about what it does. It is not
> compatible with the non-toolkit scroll commands. What model
> was it designed to be compatible with?
None.
> I also wonder if it is being triggered at the proper time.
> Is it supposed to let you drag the handle? To do that properly,
> it has to be activated on the down event, but that does not seem
> to be the case. I can't really understand the comment in keyboard.c
> around line 5188; maybe it says that Emacs does not get a down event,
> or maybe only that Emacs can't distinguish down from up. Which is it?
Scroll bar widgets work different from Emacs' scroll bars. One
registers a callback function with the widget that is invoked when
actions happen on the scroll bar, for instance when the scroll bar
handle is dragged, when a scroll bar arrow is clicked etc. The widget
does the translation of user actions to scroll bar actions, depending
on its capabilities and specified user translations (I mean the normal
X way of customizing X widgets). The scroll bar actions received by
the callback function are converted to certain "widget events" that
are handled in Lisp.