[lazarus] Bug: Setting checkbox.checked triggers onclick

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 17:22:48 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> wrote:

> > > > I'm trying to detect when a user checks the box so I can enable a
> > > > save button, but if I change from one record to another and
> > > > programmatically set the .enabled property it triggers the onclick
> > > > event for the checkbox.
> > >
> > > This is a good point, which depends actually on the toolkit used.
> > > Personally, I think that the event 'OnClick' should be separated out
> > > in'OnClick' (clicked by user) and 'OnChange' (State of checkbox
> > > changed) But this will give compatibility problems.
> >
> > I vote for this OnChange/OnClick separation.
> > Should I add a boolean property 'UseOnChange'?
> 
> I think this is a good idea. It should be used consistently to separate
> user events from state changing events.
> 
> > What should be the default?
> 
> Make a global var, which is used as default when creating a combobox.
> The default value should maybe be 'False' for Delphi compatibility.

It's done.
The global variable is named DefaultButtonControlUseOnChange. Long names for
seldom used things.


Mattias