Re: GUI Interface

Dave Page wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: A.M. [mailto:agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com]
>> Sent: 15 May 2006 15:05
>> To: Dave Page
>> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] GUI Interface
>>
>>> I'm unable to reproduce this problem with pgAdmin SVN-trunk
>> built with
>>> wxGTK 2.6.3 on Slackware-current with KDE.
>>>
>>> Can anyone else reproduce this bug with a 1.4 build of
>> pgAdmin with wx
>>> 2.6.x?
>> I can- reliably even- using stock Ubuntu 5.10 with:
>> gnome-libs 1.4.2
>> pgadmin 1.4.2
>> wxWindows 2.6
>>
>> Any drag-and-drop operation makes X freeze until I terminate
>> pgadmin remotely or from a pty. Let me know how I can help to
>> fix this- obviously, X is waiting for something from pgadmin
>> which it isn't getting. You could use the Ubuntu Live CD if
>> you want to try it out for yourself.
>
> Using source builds of wxGTK-2.6.3 and pgAdmin 1.4.2 (or SVN trunk) I
> find that DnD works perfectly on Ubuntu - it even saves fragments in a
> text file if I dump it on the desktop which is a pretty neat feature (of
> Gnome?) that I never saw before. I've been unable to make it hang itself
> and certainly not X.

It took me a while to find out how exactly to reproducte the hang (It
would happen to me about once a day when using pgadmin3 heavily on
gnome/metacity, but when trying to reproduce it, I couldn't).

You have to select some text, and then _doubleclick_ on the selected
part. When I do this, the cursor is changes to some strange shape (
Kind of a upper-left corner with a "+"-sign inside). Ever click is
ignored, but the keyboard remains working (I can edit text in the
sql-editor). When I press Alt-f in this state, the File-Menu opens,
the cursor resumes it's normal shape, and clicks are handled again.

If, however, the sql-editor looses focus while in the "funny mode", then
I know of now way to get X working again apart from changing to a
console, and killling pgadmin3.

> Can either you or Florian try a source build please? Florian should know
> how by now :-p, but if needed, you can find some instructions at
> http://www.pgadmin.org/download/source.php.
I'm currently build wx, will report if a custom-built pgadmin3 shows the
same behaviour.

greetings, Florian