Scrollbar control and auto complete confusion

[William Prothero]

Ali:
Interesting. I wonder, doesn’t it violate the usefulness of autocomplete if there are a bunch of items listed that don’t pertain to the control being edited? I somehow had assumed that the list was adjusted to be relevant to the particular control’s script in question.
Best,
Bill

> On Oct 3, 2017, at 1:14 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> probably best in this instance to refer to the dragLeave entry in the
> dictionary - "Sent when the mouse pointer moves out of an object during a drag
> and drop." So, this is relevant to all controls including the scrollbar,
> but perhaps not in the way you would think immediately.
> 
> PS, you can use the documentation tab in the script editor to display brief
> info about the livecode syntax token at the current text entry point, or
> right click on a token and choose 'Find in docs' to see the dictionary
> entry.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:24 PM William Prothero via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> Folks:
>> In livecode 8.1.7 (RC2), I drag a scrollbar to the window of a new stack.
>> I the scrollbar script, I put the following code:
>> 
>> on dragLeave
>> 
>>        answer  “here"
>> 
>> end dragLeave
>> 
>> The “dragLeave” message is shown in the autocomplete list. There are
>> numerous other entries in the autocomplete list in the IDE editor, that
>> look like messages that are sent for various operations.
>> 
>> I get nothing when I move the scroll with the mouse. Same behavior for
>> “slider” and “scrollbar” controls in 9.0.0 (DP9).
>> 
>> What’s up? Is this a bug, confusion on my part? Seems non-intuitive. It
>> seems to me that there are a LOT of entries in the auto-complete list that
>> do nothing relevant to the control. If I put the handler in the stack
>> script, I also get nothing.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Bill P
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> William A. Prothero
>> http://earthlearningsolution.org/
>> 
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