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Re: OS X: pcbnew Toolbar Comboboxes Not Working

 

Le 28/06/2015 16:57, Bernhard Stegmaier a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> so, I again debugged this.
> 
> To sum up what I know now:
> Comboboxes in dialogs are working as expected
> Toolbar-Comboboxes in pcbnew main window are not working - when opened with the mouse you can select sth with up/down keys, though.
> Toolbar-Comboboxes in module editor main window are not working
> Toolbar-Comboboxes in library editor main window are working (yes, they do!)
> 
> I checked how various comboboxes/toolbars are created and there is no difference (if there is, I tried all variations, but it didn’t change anything).
> In those cases where they do not work the change notifications on the lowest OS X wxWidgets level doesn’t even seem to get called.
> So, I guess this is some very nasty wxComboBox/wxAuiToolBar focus or event handling weirdness… 
> 
> Good news is that using a wxChoice instead of a wxComboBox (with wxCB_READONLY style) does work like a charm.
> According to the wxWidgets docs the wxChoice should behave the same as a wxComboBox with wxCB_READONLY.
> The only difference might be that dependent on platform both look a little bit different.
> 
> I can come up with a patch exchanging all the toolbar comboboxes with wxChoice.
> Would you prefer to have this change only for OS X (this would add some #ifdefs around) or should I do it platform independent?
> 

A wxChoice should work fine on all platforms, at least for the
m_auxiliaryToolBar.

the less #ifdefs, the best.


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS


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