[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: strange behaviour of Spinner control

[Martin Geisse <mgeisse@xxxxxxx>]

A quick follow-up: I cannot use a trick suggested elsewhere, to take 
away focus from the Spinner before reading the value. The reason is 
another strange problem which I also found for Text controls: when 
copying values *from* the Spinner (or Text), it sends a ModifyEvent even 
though nothing was modified. Therefore, I need the "modified" value 
immediately to check if there was a real modification, and I don't want 
to take away focus while the user is editing the value of the Spinner.

Martin Geisse wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am trying to use a Spinner control in my application, and I'm 
> encountering a strange problem: When I change the value by entering 
> something into the text field of the Spinner, it sends ModifyEvents, but 
> getSelection() still returns the old (unmodified) value. Only when I 
> click on some other control, the new value is returned (this is probably 
> as soon as the Spinner loses focus). Does anyone know this problem? In 
> case it is platform-specific, I'm using Mac OSX.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Martin Geisse