Re: yelp gok hack?

[David Bolter <david bolter utoronto ca>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> David Bolter wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Yelp has a function called "timeout_update_gok".  This sounds like a 
> > temporary stop-gap that might have been forgotten. Ideally should the 
> > fix should be in mozilla (if not already)?
> >
> > http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file%3Ayelp+timeout_update_gok&btnG=Search+Code 
> >
> >
> > Can anyone shed any light on this?
> >   
> Yes - as the comment above the code indicates, there was a missing 
> event from mozilla when yelp loaded new content into an existing 
> mozembed widget.  Basically mozilla wasn't emitting an event that gok 
> could use to detect the fact that the onscreen help contents had 
> changed.  Without that event, gok didn't refresh its UI Grab keyboard 
> when viewing help.
>
> I agree that this may have been forgotten - possibly the Firefox 3 
> work has fixed it, but I think we'd need to examine the event stream 
> from a Firefox-3 gtkmozembed widget (i.e. from yelp) to be sure.
Thanks Bill,

I see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157941 and 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293670 are still alive so 
this issue hasn't completely dropped of the radar.

cheers,
David

> regards
>
> Bill
> > cheers,
> > David
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