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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/14/2014 07:31 PM, yann jautard wrote:
> 
> Le 14/08/2014 16:21, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit :
>>> I don't know if it is technically possible to change this behaviour, but 
>>> I think it could be a great improvement.
>>>
>> :
>>> yann
>>>
>> Hopefully QuasiModal is not a monster.
>>
>> For significant dialogs (ones which tend to be open for a while) using the QuasiModal
>> support in DIALOG_SHIM might be a solution to this.  It disables the window which invokes
>> the dialog, but nothing more.
>>
>> Without the QuasiModal support, the behaviour is platform specific.  On linux, I *CAN*
>> open the schematic editor while viewing footprint properties and scroll, but I cannot
>> close the schematic window.  So that behaviour is arguably worse, since it looks like a
>> bug.  (It is not a bug that I would respond to.  Let's register it as folklore.)
> 
> Hi Dick,
> 
> This sounds pretty strange : I'm on linux too, and I can't. Kicad main window frozen when
> dialog opened in pcbnew.
> 
>>
>> Remember if you cannot close a major KIWAY_PLAYER using system window decorations, this
>> might be because you have a dialog window opened elsewhere on linux.
>>
>> Please see if this patch fixes the sample issue for you.  The QuasiModal support was
>> something I came up with using only the wxWindows API, not a platform specific approach.
>> I don't know that its been tested enough across all platforms.  Bad news is that there may
>> not be anything I can do except for Linux to fix it, should it not work wonderfully on all
>> platforms.
> 
> 
> 
> Patch solved the issue, seemed to work like a charm... But induced another issue. Step to
> reproduce :
> 
> 1 - open kicad, then open eeschema and pcbnew
> 2 - in pcbnew, open the module properties dialog on any part you want.
> 3 - go back to eeschema, wich is now responding normally, and open  the component
> properties dialog, on the same part or another one (doesn't matters).
> 4 - go back to pcbnew, close the dialog, either with OK or Cancel --> dialog closes, but
> pcbnew is frozen and also can't be closed in any normal way.
> eeschema still works, you can close the dialog and use it normally. Kicad main window
> works also.
> Eeschema can be closed normally, kicad main window also, but when closing main window,
> pcbnew window closes too, but the kicad process is still there and you need to kill it.
> 
> I thought I will modify eeschema in the same way to test if it does something else, and so
> I noticed the eeschema component properties dialog was alredy a QuasiModal one.
> 
> And obviously the same test starting with eeschema instead of pcbnew leads to to opposite
> result : eeschema stuck, pcbnew working.
> And again, the need to kill kicad process after closing the main window.


Excellent job testing, yann.

This will take some time to look into and I started last night.

Achieving platform independent and wx version independent results looks very difficult at
this point.