[kepler-dev] Re: [Ptolemy] New copy bug

[Dan Higgins]

Steve,
    The Mac corrections seem to work OK!  [I do get an error the first 
time I try to open the 'TimedSources' or 'SequenceSources' directories 
in the Actors tree, but this occurs on both the Mac and the PC (e.g. I 
get a null pointer exception in trying to load the Sinewave actor)]

Dan

Stephen Andrew Neuendorffer wrote:

> OK, I think I see what the difficulty is here.
> The problem is that drag and drop apparently resets the keyboard focus.
> Before my Mac changes, mouse events were always passed to
> the base class, which would result in the keyboard focus getting set 
> properly.
> However, on the Mac, setting the keyboard focus also clears the 
> context menu,
> so I modified the diva base classes to only pass the event to the base 
> class
> if it was not marked as consumed (for example, selecting a figure 
> consumes the event).
> However, now this prevents selections from getting around to setting 
> the mouse focus.
>
> I've now backed out some of my MAc fixes and tried a different way of 
> implementing that
> will hopefully work, by putting the code that gets the keyboard focus 
> earlier in the event processing
> before the context menus... This should still work for Mac.
>
> Dan or Chad: Can you verify that the Mac side still works?  
> particularly context menus and keyboard
> shortcuts immediately after dropping an actor.
>
> I hate debugging without test suites.
>
> Steve
>
> At 09:09 AM 6/7/2004, you wrote:
>
>> We have a serious new bug with the UI.
>>
>> When I place a Sinewave actor into an empty model,
>> select it, hit control-C (or Edit-->Copy), and then paste,
>> nothing is pasted.  If I paste into a text window, what
>> is pasted is the result of toString() on the Sinewave actor.
>> The debugger tells me that, in fact,
>> BasicGraphFrame.CopyAction.actionPerformed() is not
>> called, so the bug is before this in the event handling chain.
>> Perhaps the changes to diva to support the MAC caused this?
>>
>> Strangely, after I paste into a text editor, then
>> I can copy and paste normally, and everything works.
>> Until I drag in a new Sinewave actor...
>>
>> Edward
>>
>>
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