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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#20871: scroll wheel binding IFRAME?
From:       Tobias Anton <TA () ESC-Electronics ! de>
Date:       2001-03-02 16:40:56
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On Thursday 01 March 2001 19:30, Richard Moore wrote:
> Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 02:06:19PM +0100, Tobias Anton wrote:
> > > You're probably right about this. Unfortunately, QT doesn't work that
> > > way: On X11, the wheel event is redirected to the widget under the
> > > mouse.
> >
> > I happen to like that a lot! I would hate having to click into every
> > listview, listbox, htmlview etc. to make my mousewheel work. I'd have to
> > take care not to change a current item, hit a link etc. That would really
> > suck.
Yes, but especially for inline frames, this behaviour may be undesirable.
I don't want to decide whether it is or not, even though changing the 
behaviour would be simple.

> I agree, the current mechanism is the correct one. It is also
> consistent with the usage of the wheel button on Win32.
Are you sure? What Peter just pointed out was that iframes in IE don't accept 
the wheel event but propagate it to the parent if they're not focused.
I must admit that i like this idea, but if i'm the only one, we should close 
that BR.

Cheers,
Tobias

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