Re: Suspected non-critical dia object creation bug

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Andrew Ferrier wrote:
> I've found a suspected bug, and would like to see if others can
> recreate it. If so, I'll file it in bugzilla.
>
> Use dia CVS (I'm using one as of 2002-07-17). Turn off the
> 'reset tools on create' option in Preferences. Select any tool
> from any sheet. Click once on the diagram to create an object.
> Now select a different sheet from the drop-down list. Now click
> on the diagram again. The old type of object is again created
> (despite the fact that this contradicts with the object shown
> in the sheet's palette). One has to explcitly click on an
> (already depressed) object in the sheet to create an object of
> that type. It's arguable this is not a bug, but it's definitely
> _very_ confusing.
>
> Can anyone else verify this? I'd provide a fix, only I don't
> know where to start looking (and I'm short on time at the
> moment).

Yup, definitely a bug.  If you want to look at it, see fill_sheet_menu in
app/interface.c. 

-Lars

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