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Subject: EDM On Focus Related Displays Won't Close
From: Brian Bevins <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:46:35 -0500
I recently updated JLab operations from EDM 1-11-0zi to 1-11-1v and we have a quirky new problem (more on the status of our old problems later).

You can give a related display the "On Focus" property which causes the display in question to pop up without window manager decoration when you  mouse over the RD widget. So far, so good. We use them quite a bit for small help screens and such.

In the newer version they pop up much faster than in the old one, which is nice, but then if you move the mouse back out too quickly (and/or move over another one) the pop-up doesn't close and you get a "Close/Deactivate command ignored - window is not ready" message in the msgbox window. If your mousing is more sedate, you don't get the problem. Once the pop-ups get into this state they can't be closed until you force them to die from the window manager or kill EDM.

We run both versions on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, which uses Xorg 6.8.2. Both built against EPICS R3.14.8.2.

I noticed a recent entry on John's site that sounds like it might possibly be related:

Nov 6, 2008


Version 1-11-1t

pip.cc: fixed bug that would cause embedded windows not to close under certain
conditions

Problem still exists...

shell_cmd.cc, shell_cmd.h, shell_cmd.str, cursor.cc, cursor.h: changed cursor behavior


 I haven't ferreted out the root cause yet, but I wondered if anybody else is seeing this.

Thanks,
-- 
Brian S. Bevins, PE
Computer Scientist / Mechanical Engineer
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

     "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than
      sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
                                     --Martin Luther King Jr.
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