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[Garth Corral <gcorral@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Jun 22, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jun 22, 2015, at 5:00 AM, Johannes Maibaum <jmaibaum@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hey OSX devs,
>> 
>> And I just came across another minor UI glitch in pcbnew: When running the DRC, the dialog
>> window loses focus to the main window after the checks are finished. Since the main window is
>> usually bigger than the DRC dialog window this results in the dialog suddenly vanishing from
>> the screen. An unexperienced user might think that the checks failed and might try to click
>> the DRC button again. But since the dialog is still lurking behind the main window, nothing
>> happens.
>> 
>> I think that there are two issues here, that both should be easy to fix:
>> 
>> - DRC dialog window should keep focus after checks are finished.
>> - If the dialog has somehow lost focus (perhaps the user deliberately gave focus back to the
>> main window, leaving the dialog open), the next click on the DRC button/icon should bring the
>> dialog back to focus.
>> 
>> However, with the DRC issue I am not sure, if this is OSX only and I have no Linux machine
>> near me now to verify.
> 
> I have noticed this, too, and it’s been a long-standing annoyance. Is this an OS X-only issue or does it affect all platforms.
> 
Here’s my craptastic workaround for these issues.  I’ve ifdef’d some of this but it’s probably harmless on other platforms.

It should come as a s surprise to no one that these are the result of OS X wxWidgets issues.  The wxWidgets bug tracker is littered with variants of these, some of which were ostensibly fixed, while others have languished for years.  I have a minimal repro for both so I’ll file bugs there.  I wouldn’t expect to see a fix on the 3.0 branch any time soon.  I have a wxWidgets patch that is slightly less lame, but it still just works around the real issue so it’s probably not worth maintaining a yet another wxWidgets patch for that.


Garth

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