Re: Clicking Button Twice in Succession Not Responsive

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:28 -0600, Allen wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> has anyone else come across this bug w/ gtk/gtkmm?  When I click a 
> button in my window twice or more in succession, the 1st time it works, 
> the button performs the action I've attached to it. But if I click it 
> twice or more in succession w/o clicking anywhere else on my interface, 
> focus comes back to my button but it will not perform the action.
> 
> I must click off the button- click somewhere else on my GUI - then I may 
> click back on my button & it will work again.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this and is there a simple fix?

Yes, I believe it's this extremely annoying GTK+ bug, which looks like
it might finally be fixed soon:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070

That is also mentioned in this Ubuntu bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/22930

> I've tried the following w/ no success:
> 1. In code, set focus to some other GUI element & then click on the 
> button a second time
> 2. In code, set focus to some other GUI element, ran the "clicked" 
> method of a hidden button
> 3. In code, updated the GUI interface several times after the button was 
> clicked once
> 4. In code, ran the "clicked" method of a hidden button, set focus on 
> another GUI element, & updated the GUI several times after 1 button click
> 
> Each of the above experiments were separate &, obviously, built on top 
> of the one that came before to no avail.
> 
> Any suggestions?  Thanks everyone!
> 
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