Re: gtkmm and gtk-osx

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:44 +0200, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:33 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> > > but consider that on gtk/osx, DnD within certain widgets (e.g. the
> > > treeview) is still totally broken.
> > 
> > Is that covered by the two drag bugs in the list above?
> 
> 501588 is the closest. its a really deep change in how DnD works that
> totally screws up the treeview (and perhaps other things). the current
> treeview maintainer has expressed "strong reservations" about fixing it,
> on the grounds that he's working on whole new version :(
> 
> the TV has other bugs related to event handling that are worse on OS X,
> but they are very very hard to fix without substantial reworking of the
> treeview code. it does select operations on the wrong event (press, not
> release or motion, for example).
> 
> > >  or that basic changes to the
> > > idle-update mechanism are still under discussion.
> > 
> > I don't see a bug in the list for that.
> 
> its not a bug. its about optimization. but the effects can be dramatic
> (good or bad).
> 
> > >  or that the mechanism
> > > to make sure that shortcuts activate "top menu" items is still under
> > > development.
> > 
> > Is that 530351 in the list?
> 
> its not in the list. again, its not a bug. GTK has no concept of a "top
> menu" and so its not possible to represent this functionality with the
> GTK API (at present).

So it's an enhancement bug. If it's not in bugzilla then it definitely
won't happen.

>  the code involved isn't even part of GTK at
> present (its available from the gtk-osx site). the problem is trying to
> find a way to (a) automatically call the right code during key event
> handling and (b) explain to developers who need more control over this
> just how they should call the right code.
> 
> i'm glad that my other changes to gtk/osx are now in svn. the "ardour
> gtk-osx patch" has become quite small and the biggest single item
> (adding delta support for mousewheel events) may still go in eventually.

Where is that patch in bugzilla?

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