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Core regression between svn 6693 -> 6697 [message #41546]

Sat, 28 December 2013 11:23

Didier
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Registered: November 2008
Location: France

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Hi all,

Yesterday I spent most my day trying to find out why the AutoWaitCursor was not working any more.

At first I though it was my code so I dug, and dug and dug again ... without success.
I finally took my most recent app code and moved around Upp SVN versions and I found the following:
==> Events and drawing do not work the exact same way as before

WaitCursor does not work any more (the painting of the mouse cursor is done at the end of the action you are actually wainting for ==> so it just appears very briefly while it does not appear when it should (even if the waiting lasts seconds ...)
Opening a popup menu of a Ctrl causes refresh of all Ctrls of layout each time the mouse hovers a new selection (without having to select it)
Closing of a popup menu is delayed until the action selected by menu is finished (mostly visible when selecting copy action in GraphCtrl for the Big data graph)
App taking focus, by selecting top window decoration, not inside app view (switching from explorer to app for example) causes a full repaint ( while it didn't before )

Are these changes normal or is it my application that is not built correctly : like I should use a PostCallback in all Popup menu actions ??

I encountered these problems while working on my GraphCtrl package that is in SVN sandbox.
I have only tested on LINUX (not tested on win32)
The changes have been introduced somewhere between SVN versions : 6693(OK) ==> 6697(BUG)

[Updated on: Sat, 28 December 2013 12:00]

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