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    Proper closure to the glist_grab saga in respect to iemgui numbox · 3b43f5db
    Ivica Bukvic authored
    * Reenabled the mouseup event that was mysteriously disabled for an unknown amount of time. This made it difficult to report to the object mouse release event after it has been dragged and the mouse ended-up being positioned outside object's bounds.
    
    * This now allows for very nice control over objects that are being grabbed.
    
    * Mouse release sets doubleclick flag to -1 to differentiate itself from the regular mouse movement which also reports mouse press as 0.
    
    * Allowed for glist_grab to be exclusive in respect to key presses and settable as such via the glist_grab call. See iemgui numbox for benefits of this implementation, described below.
    
    * Completely reworked numbox logic with additional variables designed to improve code readability and disambiguate the x->x_gui.x_changed and x->x_gui.x_change.
    
    * Rotated the order of event propagation to have glist_grab 1st and event bound objects second (e.g. key/keyname etc.). THIS IMPLEMENTATION SHOULD BE HEAVILY SCRUTINIZED TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE NO ADVERSE EFFECTS. Given the rapid release cycle I suggest adding it to the next release and then observing user feedback.
    
    * The numbox now offers the following behavior:
    
    1) click and drag and release (with or without shift which can be pressed at any time to toggle between fine +-0.01 and +-1 increments) which immediately changes the number value and outputs it. This kind of grab does not do exclusive keyboard grab and therefore allows keyboard to still propagate to other bound events.
    
    2) click and immediately release enters the exclusive keyboard mode and makes the '>' appear to make the user aware of this. Here you can use arrows up/down with and without shift, press allowed keyboard keys (numbers, enter, delete, etc.) and edit the value accordingly. Pressing arrows always changes the last digit of the currently truncated number. Pressing enter commits the value and retains the focus for another 3 seconds unless user presses Esc or clicks outside the number box. If all the digits are erased the number implicity assumes 0.
    
    3) clicking and immediately releasing without shift pressed to activate exclusive keyboard mode activates legacy/default behavior where entered text overwrites the existing (the cursor starts at the beginning and initially only has '>'). Doing the same with shift key puts the numbox in the append mode where one can continue adding to the previously committed number. This is even true if the displayed number is simply '+' or '-' due to it exceeding the number box width (not including decimals).
    
    4) Values whenever committed are clipped to the object's min and max and reflected as such in the number object. If the object remains activated, the number is not clipped if it exceeds the object's length, but shows only last n visible digits. Upon removing focus (activation), it redraws from the beginning (if number of digits exceeds the width but does not exceed the min/max thresholds. Re-activating the object redraws it with the last digits visible.
    
    * All glist_grab instances in externals should be taken care of and are, by default, not exclusive.
    
    * Still TODO: checking if vanilla numbox is working ok. The rest of the objects shoould be unaffected.
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