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Subject: Re: Focus deadlock
From: "Specht, Eliot D." <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:50:57 +0000

Pete,

 

Can you help me to make a well-posed question for the Winteracter developer? What kind of events are created by the EPICS system which could be picked up by an application which is not EPICS-aware? That is, how would you describe a CA monitor event to a developer who is unfamiliar with EPICS?

 

Eliot Specht

 

Subject:               Re: Focus deadlock

From:    Pete Jemian <[email protected]>

To:          <[email protected]>

Date:     Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:50:49 -0500

Can this be a an issue where the GUI is receiving CA monitor events directly and focusing the associated window with each event? If so, can you throttle widget updates in Winteracter to a fixed interval rather than updating the GUI for each CA monitor event received?

 

On 10/24/2014 7:36 AM, Specht, Eliot D. wrote:

I’m seeing a conflict between:

 

“medm pilatusDetector.adl” and a Winteracter program.  Winteracter

creates GUIs for Fortran programs using Motif. The Winteracter program

is simply waiting for input while the problem occurs. The result is that

input focus shifts rapidly between two Winteracter windows. The medm

windows do not get input focus, so it’s hard to understand how medm

contributes to the problem.

 

Subject:               Re: Focus deadlock

 

From:    Pete Jemian <[email protected]>

 

To:          <[email protected]>

 

Date:     Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:26:17 -0500

 

What are the GUI applications involved?

 

On 10/23/2014 1:15 PM, Specht, Eliot D. wrote:

 

I’m running an application on a Linux x86_64 machine which opens several

 

windows for user input and data display. It runs fine unless I have an

 

EPICS areadetector IOC running in the background, in which case I get a

 

“focus deadlock”, where focus shifts rapidly between two application

 

windows and the screen becomes unresponsive to keyboard or mouse input.

 

The problem occurs under Gnome but not KDE. Running KDE is an effective

 

fix, but it would be nice to get to the bottom of the problem. Can

 

anyone suggest what’s going on?

 

Eliot Specht                        Voice: (865)574-7682

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory       FAX:   (865)574-4913

 

P.O. Box 2008, MS 6064

 

Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6064

 

Eliot Specht                        Voice: (865)574-7682

 

Oak Ridge National Laboratory       FAX:   (865)574-4913

 

P.O. Box 2008, MS 6064

 

Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6064

 

 

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Eliot Specht                        Voice: (865)574-7682

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