[Lazarus] TStringGrid and cancelling a modal form

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 13/03/18 09:00, José Mejuto via Lazarus wrote:
> El 13/03/2018 a las 9:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd via Lazarus escribió:>>> 
> Yes, the modal form appears while the mouse button is held down (for >>> 
> both GTK2 and Qt).>>>>>>> So, yes, seem that grid expects mouseup> > Is 
> there a portable way this can be sent? Otherwise I presume I could > 
> fudge it with something like QueueAsyncCall()... unless that also went> 
> through before the mouse activity was sorted out.> > I'm fairly keen to 
> hack this in such a way that it's not tied to one > version of the LCL 
> since I want this program to be fairly easy to build > even for people 
> with an old (or no existing) copy of Lazarus etc.
> Hello,
> I think the proper solution is to instruct GTK2 to use the MOUSE_UP 
> event, but meanwhile QueueAsyncCall will not be the solution as when the 
> AsyncCall will be processed grid will be still waiting for MOUSE_UP, so 
> my solution would be add a MOUSE_UP and MOUSE_DOWN handlers, something 
> like this in pseudo code:
> MOUSE_DOWN:   SelectChanged:=false;
> ON_SELECT:   SelectChanged:=true;
> MOUSE_UP:   if SelectChanged then Form.ShowModal();

Thanks, I'd just about worked that one out. I'll try later- I'm spending 
the day helping with some flocking sheep ;-)

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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