[Geany-Users] select instead of dclick

[Lex Trotman]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 10:48, Georg Klingenberg
<georg.klingenberg at travedsl.de> wrote:
>
> well, the first part of my reply was too optimistic:
> I thought of a Choice, but one has to open it manually
> (but the Windows channel is correct with an ordinary List control)
>
> but what about using a Menu here instead of a List?

I havn't looked recently, but IIRC the autocomplete uses a GTK
treeview inside the autocomplete popup rather than a list or menu, you
can look in the Scintilla GTK platform code to check.

AFAIK the autocomplete substitution happens inside the Scintilla
editing widget code.  Scintilla is a separate project from Geany and
has other users, so any change proposal would need to be raised there,
probably with code.

Cheers
Lex

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Georg Klingenberg
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 6:33 PM
> To: Geany general discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Geany-Users] select instead of dclick
>
> well, I'm doing wx and there is no problem for the user to choose between
> those two methods (same coding, the control handles it) and on Windows
> I even get the left_mouse_click and can fetch the selected index (I do GIMP
> only for pictures and there I'm really pleased with it)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lex Trotman
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 1:07 AM
> To: Geany general discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Geany-Users] select instead of dclick
>
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 08:03, Georg Klingenberg
> <georg.klingenberg at travedsl.de> wrote:
> >
> > when I get a choice at edit I have to double click to select and I can’t
> > find any customizing to simplify that: usually, when I do a click I know
> > what I’m doing..
>
> If you mean when the autocomplete popup is shown, no there is no way
> of changing mouse selection for that, its defined in the GTK tool kit
> which makes the distinction between highlighting (single click) and
> selecting (double click) but highlighting is also possible with the
> keyboard using the up/down arrow keys and select is possible using the
> return to select the highlighting.
>
> No mouse operation is useful in the autocomplete popup as it saves
> moving the hands from the typing position to the mouse so its not
> something we would want to lose.
>
> AFAIK GTK does not distinguish between highlighting using arrows and
> highlighting using the mouse so there is no way Geany (well actually
> Scintilla) can separate the operations.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
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