Subject: Ignore my message: "[patch] fix for #302"
From: Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 03:06:40 CST
Just a few seconds after I sent this message I found the bug. I'll fix it
and send another patch. Meanwhile, please ignore the bug I described - it
is my fault.
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> Thanks for finding this. Attached patch fixes the XOR problem (applies to
> current CVS - not incremental). One thing that I have noticed is that
> sometimes the lower and upper triangles of the left indent item can get
> out of sync, but I don't see why my patch would have anything to do with
> this. Is this a known bug? To reproduce:
>
> * Create a new doc
> * Drag the upper arrow to a new position
> * Drag it back to where it was before
> * Drag the lower rectangle to move both triangles.
>
> For me (with my patch applied, don't know about clean CVS) this results in
> the top arrow being ghosted at its original position and that one being
> moved whenever the rectangle is moved.
>
> I'm sorry if it was hard to understand my usage of "triangle" and
> "rectangle". I have not used a WP with a ruler of this type so I don't
> know what their real names are. I hope you can figure it out from my
> descriptions.
>
>
> Aaron Lehmann
>
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
>
> > At 12:20 AM 3/2/00 +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > >By popular demand, here's a bug fix for bug 302 (clicking ruler item sets
> > >dirty flag). I also cleaned up a few warnings in the file that appeared if
> > >you disabled debugging (some things were being calculated just for the
> > >purpose of generating debug information even if debugging was off). Enjoy!
> >
> > This looks promising, but may need a bit more work. Try the following:
> >
> > 1. Open a new empty document.
> > 2. Grab any of the left margin controls.
> > 3. Drag away, then come back to the original spot before releasing.
> >
> > For me, this leaves an XOR copy of the guide line on the display. I wasn't
> > able to reproduce the problem for new tabs, though, if that's any help.
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
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