Bug 291984 – all dialog "Finish", "Next", and "OK" buttons are broken

Bug 291984 - all dialog "Finish", "Next", and "OK" buttons are broken


Summary:	all dialog "Finish", "Next", and "OK" buttons are broken

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 291257

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse
Component:	SWT
Version:	3.5.1
Hardware:	PC Linux-GTK

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Platform-SWT-Inbox
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Reported:	2009-10-10 15:12 EDT by Andrew Schulman
Modified:	2009-10-13 09:51 EDT (History)
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Description Andrew Schulman

2009-10-10 15:12:44 EDT

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090820 Firefox/3.0.4 (Debian-3.5.2-1)
Build Identifier: 20090920-1017

In every dialog in Eclipse that has a button titled "Finish", "Next", or "OK", clicking on these buttons fails to accept my choices or move me on to the next dialog pane.  I move my mouse pointer over the dialog button, and click and release my left mouse button:  the dialog button depresses but never releases, as if I were still holding the mouse button down.  Further clicking/releasing of the mouse button has no effect.  The dialog is stuck.

Fortunately, the dialog button is then in a "selected" state so that pressing Enter on my keyboard activates it, and I can finish the dialog or move on to the next pane.

This happens only in Eclipse-- other applications don't suffer from this behavior.  It only happens to Next, Finish, or OK buttons:  others such as Back or Cancel work normally.

Thanks,
Andrew.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to e.g. File > New > File. 
2. Choose any folder, and type any file name.
3. Click on the "Finish" button.

The dialog doesn't finish.  More clicking doesn't help.  The Finish button stays depressed as long as my mouse pointer is over it, or releases if I move the pointer off.

Comment 1 Andrew Schulman

2009-10-10 15:27:37 EDT

Correction #1: Back buttons are also affected.

Correction #2: Not all dialogs are affected.  The File > New > Task dialog, for example, is not affected and works normally.

Comment 2 Remy Suen

2009-10-10 17:00:37 EDT

Turn on the GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS environment variable...

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true

...and then restart Eclipse from that terminal. That should work. Although it will only solve half your problems.

Comment 3 Andrew Schulman

2009-10-10 23:55:03 EDT

Remy, thanks.  Yes, that does seem to fix the problem.

Why only half of my problem?

Comment 4 Remy Suen

2009-10-11 07:52:15 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Why only half of my problem?

Because I've heard from people with other problems that could not fixed by this trick. You may or may not be one of those.

Comment 5 Bogdan Gheorghe

2009-10-13 09:51:04 EDT

Thanks Remy. Closing as DUP.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 291257 ***