[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#5836) Suggestion: make PageUp, PageDn scroll

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, rms@xxxxxxx wrote:

> It would be much easier to be able to use PageUp and PageDn to scroll
> the city list, and to scroll the list of possible production items,
> and anything else that has a scroll bar.

They do. But GTK+ only emits keyboard accelerators events when a widget is
focused. The list widget needs to be focused for them to work.
I have to put an extra hook in the window that sends the event to that
widget upon keypress. This is doable.

> The city list allows the arrow keys for moving from city to city.  If
> the arrow keys could work for selecting an item in anything that has a
> scroll bar, such as the list of possible production items, that would
> make them more convenient.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa