[kepler-dev] Re: right click bug with linux and OSX
Dan Higgins
higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu
Sat Jul 17 10:02:20 PDT 2004
Christopher,
I recompiled with the new JCanvas,java code and everthing now
seems to work OK on a MacOS X (more precisely OS X 10.3.4) ! Thanks!!!
(This was just a quick check; I will let you know if I see any problems
with further use).
Dan Higgins
NCEAS/UCSB
Christopher Hylands Brooks wrote:
>It looks like the problem was with $PTII/diva/canvas/JCanvas.java.
>
>I've posted an updated version of JCanvas.java to
>http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cxh/tmp/diva/
>
>Note that merely compiling JCanvas.java is not sufficient,
>lib/diva.jar also needs to be updated.
>
>I'm hoping to release Ptolemy II 4.0.1 with this change and some other
>changes.
>
>It would be a big help if Linux and Mac OS X users could try out this
>change and let me know if there are problems.
>
>Things to check:
> - Right mouse brings up the context menu for the model
> - Right mouse brings up the context menu for an actor
> - Shortcut keys like Control-L on an actor does look inside
> - Control-right click creates a relation.
> - Input or output ports can be connected to a relation
> To do this, create an input port by clicking on the icon
> in the tool bar
> Then do control-left click to create a relation
> Then do control-left click again near the relation to create a link
> and connect to the input port
> (The above works for me under Windows, I have not tried it on
> the Mac or Linux lately)
>
>Interestingly, upgrading to Java 1.5 seems to also solve the problem,
>which leads me to suspect a bug in Java 1.4 is part of the problem.
>
>-Christopher
>
>
>--------
>
> I plan on poking around on this tomorrow. The problem is likely the
> MacOS X changes - I probably missed something when merging change from
> the devel tree into the release branch. I did a couple of diffs
> before between the devel tree and the release branch before the
> release, but I must have missed it.
>
> It would help if someone with CVS access can try MacOSX and/or Linux
> to see if the problem is in the devel tree or just the 4.0 release.
> I don't think 4.0-beta had the Mac OS X changes in it, hence the
> change between 4.0-beta and 4.0
>
> BTW - Have you tried Java 1.5?
>
> Bart Kienhuis wrote:
>
> > I have found similar problems when running PTII version 0.4 on a linux
> > system. After trying various JDKs, I found that none works until
> > 1.4.2_05. But, in JDK 1.5.0 the problems is apparently solved and the
> > menu windows does appears normally, as expected. Seems that it does not
> > happen on WIndows, but only on Linux. Therefore, I think it is a JDK
> > error and not a PTII error.
>
> -Christopher
>
> --------
>
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Chad Berkley wrote:
>
> > >> A few of us in the Kepler group have been seeing a bug with PT4 on
> > >> linux and OSX. When you right click on an actor, the context menu
> > >> shows up for about 1/16th of a second then immediately goes away.
>
> Any info on this problem? It shows up in Ptolemy 4.0-release but not
> 4.0-beta on SuSE linux.
>
> --tobin
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