Hi Clive,
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:14:59AM +0000, Clive Stubbings wrote:
I have recently been doing that dreaded periodic fork-lift linux
update. It always throws up some troublesome issues. This one is
particularly wierd.
I have an old app, been working for years. Tried running it on a new
system and various bits of the gui didn't display right. It looked
like a 'flush' issue but fl_update_display() did not help.
. However the issue shows up even if I run the old app on the old
system but put just the display over the network onto the new
platform. New platform is Arch Linux. Building against different
libraries didn't change anything. The arch xforms package is
1.0.94pre4-1, I was using something older..
I boiled it down to the example below. If the canvas object is
created then the checkbutton does not light when you press it. If
the canvas object is not created, the check button works fine. I
believe that the object sees the mouse button press because in the
bigger app, I could see callbacks happening.
On my old system this works fine in both cases. So my take is this
is an X server interaction issue with a new Xorg. The X is X.Org X
Server 1.11.4
Release Date: 2012-01-27, X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0.
Or am I missing something obvious.
Not anything I could see - looks like an absolutely correct
program. Alas, I also can't reproduce it with a slightly
older XOrg version of 1.10.4. And a short look at the code
for drawing the checkbutton also doesn't show anything I
would consider to be strange. But the connection with the
existence of a canvas object is really "interesting". Might
be interesting to look if the draw_checkbutton() function in
checkbut.c is called at all. If it does the first thing I
would suspect is some clipping issues, otherwise something
really strange must be going on. Another thing that could
be interesting to check is if it makes a difference if one
swaps the creation of the canvas and the checkbutton in the
code...
Unfortunately, I won't be able to update to a newer XOrg
version at the moment, so I can't make promises when I will
be able to try to reproduce the problem on my machine.
Best regards, Jens
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