Re: GtkEntry - did not receive focus-out-event.




On Sep 21, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Daniel Kasak wrote:

I've hit somewhat of a brick wall with the error:

Gtk-WARNING **: GtkEntry - did not receive focus-out-event. If you
connect a handler to this signal, it must return
FALSE so the entry gets the event as well at /usr/lib/perl5/ site_perl/5.8.5/Gtk2/Ex/Dialogs/Message.pm line 236. Gtk-ERROR **: file gtkentry.c: line 4857 (blink_cb): assertion failed: (GTK_WIDGET_HAS_FOCUS (entry)) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ 5.8.5/Gtk2/Ex/Dialogs/Message.pm line 236.
Aborted

which results in my app completely bailing out.

Incidentally, the reason for this is that if you inhibit the focus- out handler, GtkEntry has no way to disable the cursor blinking timeout, and the timeout subsequently runs and can cause a core dump because one of his pointers is invalid. That's why they flagged this as a fatal error assertion.

What's happening is that I've connected some code to run on the focus-out event of an entry:

sub on_Prospects_Search_LeadNo_focus_out_event {
   my $leadno = $prospects->get_widget("Search_LeadNo")->get_text;
   $prospect_data->query("where LeadNo=$leadno");
   return FALSE;
}

That return FALSE bit I added just now - it didn't help any.

.... because you weren't getting that far before it blew up. It will help in the future. Read on.


I'm getting into the line:

$prospect_data->query("where LeadNo=$leadno");

From here, my Gtk2::Ex::DBI module is throwing an error ( because I've mucked up the SQL ... but that's my problem ) via Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs. The bit of code that does this is:

eval {
   $sth->execute || die $self->{dbh}->errstr;
};

if ($@) {
   Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ErrorMsg->new_and_run(
                           title    => "Error in Query!",
                           text    => "DB Server says:\n$@"
   );
   return FALSE;
}

I get the error message, but as soon as it appears, the whole app crashes with the above error. What's going on? Where do I have to return FALSE to stop this from happening?


This is a lot easier to understand with a timeline:

- focus into GtkEntry
  - GtkEntry installs timeout for cursor blinking
- focus out of entry
  - GtkEntry emits focus-out-event
     - your handler runs **before the default handler**.
        - your handler traps exception and creates dialog box
        - dialog box runs nested event loop
           - event processing continues, focus goes to another widget
- entry's cursor blink timeout is still installed, and runs again. entry does not have focus, but timeout has run, so the widget is in an invalid state and calls g_error() with a nastygram.
     - default handler runs, uninstalls cursor blink timeout

The problem is that you're allowing the event loop to run in your handler for focus-out.

The solution is to get the entry's default handler to run before you do anything that can run a main loop. There are two easy solutions:


a) use signal_connect_after to have your handler run *after* the default handler for focus-out-event instead of before.

b) leave the signal connected normally, but in your "catch" block, instead of running the dialog right then, defer it with an idle, like this:

    if ($@) {
# oh, crap. pop up the error message when the main loop is idle.
        Glib::Idle->add (sub {
            Gtk2::Ex::Dialogs::ErrorMsg->new_and_run(
                           title    => "Error in Query!",
                           text    => "DB Server says:\n$@"
            );
            FALSE;  # don't run again
        });
        # return control immediately.
        return FALSE;
    }


and, of course, option c) is "do both."


Hope that works.

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