Re: Tooltips problem on Gnome 3

[Germán Arias]

Hi Fred, attached the list of events.

Germán


El sáb, 28-01-2017 a las 19:41 +0100, Fred Kiefer escribió:
> Hi German,
> 
> thank you for keeping looking into this. You patch actually suggests
> that my impression of this being a timing issue could be correct. Of
> course I have a bit of a problem with sending events out of the
> stream. When ever we tried this „solution“ before for some timing
> issue, we just moved the problem over to some other event that wont
> get handled correctly. 
> The best thing to do now is find out what other events get in the way
> of this one. Maybe there are resizing events or what ever else that
> result in this event not being processed correctly. Could you please
> revert your patch locally and switch on logging of events? I think
> you just need to add "—GNU-Debug=NSEvent“ when starting your
> application. Of course the logging of events could itself resolve the
> timing issue, but even then we could see which events get processed
> right before this one. So please switch on the logging and report
> back the order of events, when the tooltip window gets displayed.
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
> > Am 28.01.2017 um 02:23 schrieb Germán Arias <germanandre@gmx.es>:
> > 
> > 
> > The attached patch solves the problem for me (tested on WindowMaker
> > and
> > Gnome 3). The problem seems to be the event queue. Not sure if this
> > change is OK or not.
> > 
> > Germán
> > 
> > 
> > El mié, 18-01-2017 a las 14:22 +0100, Riccardo Mottola escribió:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Fred Kiefer wrote:
> > > > I just committed a tiny change to the window level handling
> > > > that
> > > > hopefully helps tool tips on other window managers. But I am
> > > > not
> > > > very
> > > > convinced that you actually have a window type issue here, from
> > > > your
> > > > description it sounds more like a timing issue.
> > > 
> > > I did some more accurate testing on NetBSD/amd64.
> > > I noticed by testing on PC's buttons. In my previous mail I said
> > > it 
> > > consistently not worked, now it works sometimes, sometimes not.
> > > 
> > > 1) if it does work, it works perfectly
> > > 2) if it does not display, the icon disappears and becomes grey,
> > > yet 
> > > waiting... a couple of seoncs, sometimes more, will make
> > > eventually
> > > the 
> > > tooltip appear and also the icon.
> > > 
> > > I wonder why the icon is involved at all.
> > > 
> > > Riccardo
> > > 
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