EventType()

[Little John]

Hello,

The following gadgets support EventType():

- ExplorerListGadget()
- ExplorerTreeGadget()
- ImageGadget()
- ListViewGadget()
- ListIconGadget()
- MDIGadget()
- SpinGadget()
- StringGadget()
- WebGadget()

IMHO it would be useful if other gadgets, for instance the ComboBoxGadget, would support EventType() as well.

Regards, Little John

[thyphoon]

+1

[Jacobus]

+1
And specifically the EditorGadget() to display a context menu can be easily used.
Thank you in advance.

[Ulix]

+1

[Marlin]

I basically like the idea of EventType() for [allmost] all gadgets.

There might however be aspects that make that more difficult,
than we might think.

F.e. I found, that the EditorGadget() does automatically get a nice context menu (from Gtk?) in the Linux version.

[User_Russian]

IMHO it would be useful if other gadgets, for instance the ComboBoxGadget, would support EventType() as well.

There is support In Windows

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If OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 270, 140, "ComboBoxGadget", #PB_Window_SystemMenu | #PB_Window_ScreenCentered)
    ComboBoxGadget(1, 10, 40, 250, 21)
    For a = 1 To 5
      AddGadgetItem(1, -1,"ComboBox item " + Str(a))
    Next
   SetGadgetState(1, 2)    ; set (beginning with 0) the third item as active one
   
  Repeat 
   Event=WaitWindowEvent()
   Gadget=EventGadget()
   Type=EventType()
   
    If Event=#PB_Event_Gadget And Gadget=1
      Debug Type
    EndIf
  Until  Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf

[Little John]

Oh, some "quick responses" after almost 2 years.

IMHO it would be useful if other gadgets, for instance the ComboBoxGadget, would support EventType() as well.

There is support In Windows

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If OpenWindow(0, 0, 0, 270, 140, "ComboBoxGadget", #PB_Window_SystemMenu | #PB_Window_ScreenCentered)
    ComboBoxGadget(1, 10, 40, 250, 21)
    For a = 1 To 5
      AddGadgetItem(1, -1,"ComboBox item " + Str(a))
    Next
   SetGadgetState(1, 2)    ; set (beginning with 0) the third item as active one
   
  Repeat 
   Event=WaitWindowEvent()
   Gadget=EventGadget()
   Type=EventType()
   
    If Event=#PB_Event_Gadget And Gadget=1
      Debug Type
    EndIf
  Until  Event = #PB_Event_CloseWindow
EndIf

a) When you look at the help for EventType(), then you'll see that now (PB 4.40 Beta 5) the list of supported gadgets is exactly the same as the list which I posted 2 years ago. So either additional gadgets are not supported until now, or they are secretely supported and their support is not documented.

b) Well, your above code does do something ...

But when you get the example code from the help for EventType(), and just replace

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ListIconGadget(1, 10, 10, 150, 100, "ListIcon", 140, #PB_ListIcon_GridLines)

with

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ComboBoxGadget(1, 10, 10, 150, 20)

then e.g. clicking at an item with the left mouse button results (with PB 4.40 Beta 5 on Windows XP x86) in the message

Click with right mouse button

That's not what I meant when I wrote "support EventType()". Of course, all the constants documented in the help should have the same meaning for all supported gadgets.

Regards, Little John

[ts-soft]

ComboBoxGadget does not support eventtype, only some WinAPI event have the same value as #PB_EventType_RightClick