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Bug 96379

Summary:

Celleditor loses focus when its context menu comes up

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Pratik Shah <ppshah>

Component:

SWT

Assignee:

Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

billy.biggs, cocoakevin, ericwill, snorthov

Version:

3.1

Keywords:

triaged

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux-GTK

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Proof of concept patch	none

Description Pratik Shah

2005-05-23 19:41:05 EDT

On GTK, when I bring up a text celleditor's context menu (by right-clicking or 
via the keyboard), the celleditor loses focus and is closed.

Comment 1 Billy Biggs

2005-05-31 22:53:35 EDT

Created attachment 22117 [details]
Proof of concept patch

When context menus open, GTK+ sends focus events to the affected widgets.

The attached patch demonstrates how to detect when a GtkEntry's popup menu is
about to be displayed, and how to block the corresponding FocusOut event. 
There is some prior art for this solution: it is basically how GTK+ ignores the
focus event for their own cell editors.

While this solution is appealing, it is dangerous, and I think it may be too
late for 3.1.  Note that this problem is reproducable in Eclipse 3.0.

Comment 2 Eric Williams

2018-04-09 14:39:44 EDT

I can no longer reproduce this issue.