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Karl Ramberg

[Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

It can seem like when UserDialogBoxMorph inform: 'Some info' is called, it is most often from a block and then the hand position is wrongly interpreted to be in the upper left corner.

This is no big deal, just a little quirk.

Karl

marcel.taeumel (old)

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

Hmm... the dialog uses the hands current position. Do you refer to the Squeak update? I noticed this little glitch, too...

Best,
Marcel

Karl Ramberg

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

Yes, specially the update notification is allways in the upper left corner,

Karl

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Marcel Taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hmm... the dialog uses the hands current position. Do you refer to the Squeak
update? I noticed this little glitch, too...

Best,
Marcel

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marcel.taeumel (old)

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

I used "Sensor cursorPoint", which fixes that problem.

Best,
Marcel

Karl Ramberg

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

Hi, that seems to work :-)

Karl

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Marcel Taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:

I used "Sensor cursorPoint", which fixes that problem.

Best,
Marcel

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timrowledge

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

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On 16-04-2015, at 5:12 AM, Marcel Taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I used "Sensor cursorPoint", which fixes that problem.

I’d be very careful with that if I were you. That completely messes up a lot of event stuff like waitForClickOrDrag: I had soooooo uch fun late last year on the Pi Scratch work because of that.

Honestly - all that old stuff ought to be removed completely. It’s bad news.

tim
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Karl Ramberg

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

This change is for when the UI wakes up after fileing in / compiling updates.

The active mouse is not receiving events and it reports wrong position.

An alternative could be to pop up the UserDialogBoxMorph in the middle of the screen.

Karl

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:48 PM, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> wrote:

On 16-04-2015, at 5:12 AM, Marcel Taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I used "Sensor cursorPoint", which fixes that problem.

I’d be very careful with that if I were you. That completely messes up a lot of event stuff like waitForClickOrDrag: I had soooooo uch fun late last year on the Pi Scratch work because of that.

Honestly - all that old stuff ought to be removed completely. It’s bad news.

tim
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Chris Muller-3

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:01 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
> This change is for when the UI wakes up after fileing in / compiling
> updates.
> The active mouse is not receiving events and it reports wrong position.
>
> An alternative could be to pop up the UserDialogBoxMorph in the middle of
> the screen.

Or pop open the "Help | About" window, which reports the update number
by default. Seems little difference if the user has to click "Ok"
button or an "X" button, but it provides more information and solves
this problem too...

Chris Muller-3

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Chris Muller <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:01 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> This change is for when the UI wakes up after fileing in / compiling
>> updates.
>> The active mouse is not receiving events and it reports wrong position.
>>
>> An alternative could be to pop up the UserDialogBoxMorph in the middle of
>> the screen.
>
> Or pop open the "Help | About" window, which reports the update number
> by default. Seems little difference if the user has to click "Ok"
> button or an "X" button, but it provides more information and solves
> this problem too...

... and it doesn't _require_ the user to click "X" button before they
can gain control back from the system (whereas the modal solution does
require a click on "OK").

marcel.taeumel (old)

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

In reply to this post by timrowledge

Having "Sensor cursorPoint" there is completely safe. Yes, it is slow because it goes down into the VM to get that value. However, normal event processing should not be affected at all.

Best,
Marcel

Bert Freudenberg

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

On 16.04.2015, at 12:37, Marcel Taeumel <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Having "Sensor cursorPoint" there is completely safe.

Nope, it's not safe.

> Yes, it is slow because
> it goes down into the VM to get that value. However, normal event processing
> should not be affected at all.

That's not what it does. It throws away all currently buffered events except keyboard events. Like window close events, file drop events, everything gets flushed before Morphic gets a chance to see it.

That's because "Sensor cursorPoint" is supposed to be used from MVC, which can't deal with these types of events anyway.

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Karl Ramberg

Re: [Minor BUG] UserDialogBoxMorph pop up in upper left corner

In reply to this post by Chris Muller-3

A non modal display of this info would be nice. I could act much like a menu, one you click anywhere it would disappear.

Karl

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Chris Muller <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:01 PM, karl ramberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
> This change is for when the UI wakes up after fileing in / compiling
> updates.
> The active mouse is not receiving events and it reports wrong position.
>
> An alternative could be to pop up the UserDialogBoxMorph in the middle of
> the screen.

Or pop open the "Help | About" window, which reports the update number
by default. Seems little difference if the user has to click "Ok"
button or an "X" button, but it provides more information and solves
this problem too...