[squeak-dev] inescapable modal dialog in trunk

Jakob Reschke forums.jakob at resfarm.de
Thu Nov 8 21:43:59 UTC 2018


Confirmed. 5.2b 18225 Windows 64 bit.

Am Do., 8. Nov. 2018 um 22:29 Uhr schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com
>:

> Well, it appears the problem is present in the production 5.2 image
> with stock Preference settings too!   :(
>
> Here are exact steps to reproduce using the production 5.2 image:
>
> 1) launch Squeak5.2.
>
> 2) Click "Skip" to remove the "Welcome To Squeak" banner.  Close the
> "Welcome To Squeak" window, too.
>
> 3) Click in the search bar in the upper right, type "asFloat" (without
> quotes), and press [Return].  The window showing implementors is shown
> with the first method selected.
>
> 4) Make it dirty.  Click in the text pane and insert a space.
>
> 5) Click on the second method.  Squeak displays, "Changes have not been
> saved, is it okay to cancel those changes?"
>
> 6) Click "No".
>
> 7) Now try to click on the desktop.  The dialog keeps coming back.
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:22 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On 2018-11-07, at 1:45 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 07/11/18 9:38 AM, Chris Muller wrote:
> > >> 1.  Make a method in a browser dirty.
> > >> 2.  Click on another method.  Squeak displays, "Changes have not been
> > >> saved, is it okay to cancel those changes?"
> > >> 3.  Click "No".
> > >> 4.  Now try click anywhere else or do anything else in other windows
> > >> or the desktop.  Every click anywhere causes the dialog to reappear
> > >> until you say "Yes" or cancel the method changes.
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > I am unable to reproduce this problem. In Step 4, I am able to open
> the global menu or a workspace and continue working on other tasks without
> having the modal dialog pop up.
> >
> > Same thing on 5.2 32bit Pi - no problem with the dialogue at all.
> >
> > Now an obvious thing is that my set of preferences is almost certainly
> very different to Chris' and some of those settings may have a relevant
> effect. I don't use smart splitters for example and maybe something related
> to that is interacting with the mouse presses; no idea.
> >
> >
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > Useful random insult:- If she was any dumber, she'd be a green plant.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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