Bug with Popup menus on Windows

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Mark.  I think I need to file a QCC report on this.
Pete

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> I have exactly the same problem in a plugin for in-house use. I have a
> field with a mouseUp and a mouseDown handler. The mouseDown handler shows
> the popup menu and the mouseUp handler does something unrelated. On Mac it
> works fine, but on Windows it doesn't. I don't know if this is useful
> information for you, but maybe it gives you a hint somehow.
>
> --
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>
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 9 nov 2012, at 17:38, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > Posted this on the Dev list a couple of days ago but still looking for an
> > answer so trying here.
> >
> > I'm seeing some strange behavior with popup menus on Windows.  The same
> > menus work perfectly on OS X.
> >
> > I have a customer who has reported that after right clicking on a
> scrolling
> > list field to bring up a popup menu, he is unable to select any of the
> > items on it nor get rid of the popup.
> >
> > I have not seen quite that behavior but if I right click, then select a
> > menu item that has submenu items attached to it, I cannot get out of the
> > submenus unless I select one, nor can I get out of the popup itself.
> >
> > I could not find a bug report on the first problem but I found bug# 9718
> on
> > the second issue, recognised as a bug on 9/12/2011 but apparently still
> not
> > fixed.  Surely this is a serious enough problem to warrant being fixed in
> > less than a year!
> >
> > If anyone else has come across these issues and has any sort of
> workaround,
> > I;d be grateful to hear it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> >
>
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