Subject: Re: Bug fix for 522
From: Daniel Weber (dweber1@austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2000 - 21:12:47 CST
Daniel Weber wrote:
> I'm working on a perfect solution to 522 (key strokes activate toolbar
> combo boxes). I think I've gotten a working solution, which works as
> follows:
>
> 1) Signals are attached to the combo using s_register_signal. This
> function saves them, but doesn't connect them.
> 2) Whenever the combo button is pressed, signals are connected
> 3) When the hide event is triggered, the signals are disconnected
> again.
>
> This is for the linux version. All changes have been confied to
> ev_UnixToolbar.cpp. Note I've manually made the changes to remove the
> mod modes.
>
> This seems to work, though I've had a couple weird errors. Mouse
> clicks, back spaces and other events don't trigger the changed handler
> and the box still seems to work. However, abi locked up my
> keyboard/mouse once (corrected by logging in remotely and killing abi)
> and twice I've had a cursor "stick", where a phony cursor would stay
> even when I arrowed away.
>
> Questions:
> 1) Why is the key-press event attached to the combo box? Is there a
> key combination it should respond to? I'm doing my testing with the
> signal not attached.
> 2) Are the above errors experienced by anyone else? Are these known
> bugs or am I creating them?
>
> I'm going to do some more testing with the keyboard signal attached...
Alright, you need the key press events to manually change zoom, font
size, etc. Duh.
Can't recreate the lock, though....
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