[Lazarus] Mouse button quirks

[Martin Friebe]

Hi,

not much of a complete answer. (I am on the run, and I havn't got full 
background anyway)

But it' something to do with Mousecaptur (afaik).

And yes they differ somehow: http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13878

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Now that I've improved the handling of splitters in a dock site, I 
> again came across some weird behaviour of the LCL, depending on the 
> widgetset :-(
>
> To reproduce:
> 1. Run examples/dockmanager/easytree/easydocking.
> 2. Dock one or more controls into the dock site.
> 3. Press (and hold) the left mouse button over the dockzone header of 
> a docked control.
> 4. Move the mouse around.
>
> Now you'll find the control (associated with the header) being dragged 
> with the gtk2 widgetset, but with the win32 widgetset nothing will 
> happen at all, and the whole application becomes unresponsive :-(
>
>
> Can somebody explain what will happen when the mouse is pressed over 
> one control (or menu entry), and is released over a different control? 
> On the LButtonDown message the csLButtonDown flag is set in the 
> control's ControlState, but how is this flag cleared later? It 
> possibly will never be cleared, when the BeginDrag method of a 
> *different* control is invoked?
>
> IMO the Delphi control model is flawed, when every control remembers 
> the mouse button states itself. IMO the position of a button-down and 
> the affected control should be stored in a unique place, e.g. in the 
> TMouse object. Then TMouse can handle all mouse moves and button 
> events, and will notify the controls only of definite events, like 
> Clicks. Then also the (immediate or delayed) begin of a dragging 
> operation can be determined and handled properly in the Mouse object. 
> The same for a mouse capture: it should be handled in one place (again 
> in the Mouse object), so that no control will ever have to handle 
> captured events itself, when instead the events have to be handled by 
> the capturing control, or by the DragManager.
>
> Or did I miss something?
>
>
> Of course it won't be a good idea to introduce such big changes into 
> the pending release, but IMO the following version should have a less 
> complicated, more stable, and less widgetset-dependent handling of 
> mouse events.
>
> DoDi
>
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