When scrolling panels, pop-up menus get changed

[hellopaul4]

If I have a panel open, eg. a Properties panel, if I scroll down the panel using my mouse's scroll wheel, it is possible to inadvertently change things in pop-up menus in the panel if I happen to scroll on them. This can happen quitre easily:

1. Move your mouse to an empty part of the properties panel

2. Scroll the scroll wheel to move up (or down)

3. See how if a menu scrolls into position under the mouse pointer, you'll change the values

I suggest this behaviour is fixed so that it's possible to NOT have pop-up menu values changeable with the mouse wheel unless the user has clicked on that value, or some intelligence is coded in to the scrolling process that maybe checks if the window has been scrolled in the past, say 1 second, and during this 1 second disables the mouse-menu-value-changing behaviour.

[Stan Jones]

What Build? I am still on Build 8, so assume it is after that?

Stan

[hellopaul4]

I'm on 25.1.0 Build 16...but I think this has been the default behaviour forever; the ability to change a menu's selected item using the scroll wheel is a handy feature (probably - I rarely do this), but can get confused when scrolling a panel - which I feel is the primary use for the mouse scroll wheel, so should always take precedence over changing menu things.

[Stan Jones]

Thanks. I agree that it works as you describe. And yes, I have had the same problem.

You can only scroll in a panel if there are scroll bars; e.g. in the workspace I tested the new Properties panel for a clip in the timeline does not have enough items to scroll.

For a caption/text item, there are enough items to scroll. When I scroll that, if my mouse pointer gets over the Text/font drop-down, it will scroll those items even though the drop-down is not open.

Stan

[Christian Leibig]

Completely agree. I've changed countless values in dropdown dialogues by accident when scrolling panels.