Re: [g-a-devel]Patch for bug 91993 in at-poke

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Padraig,

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 14:35, Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> > 	Curious as to why we have to have an 'idle' handler there, the
> > potential for race conditions etc.

> We are dealing here with the case where at-poke is driving the application. We 
> select a node in the Select Treeview by pressing the mouse button when over the 
> node.
> 
> If there is currently no node selected because Clear has been pressed, the code 
> in gtktreeview.c (gtk_tree_view_button_press) first selects the ifrst row of the 
> TreeView when it calls gtk_widget_grab_focus() and then subsequently selects the 
> requested node.

	I'd really prefer to have this 'fixed' in gtk+ if that's possible;
simply because adding an idle handler to ensure that we eliminate bogus
clicks is really shoddy.

	Also; if people using a GtkTreeView are reacting to a selection in some
way that might alter say a side-pane [ eg. in a mail reader ] - with a
noticable mail fetch latency - this will lead to either a load of cut
and paste idle handlers around the place discarding random events - or,
flicker and pain in other places, or worse a whole superstition culture
of idle-izing everything :-)

	I'd be most interested in whether Jonathan sees this as a bug, and
indeed whether it's fixable at root.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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