[Gambas-user] Debugger: Watch variable

[Colin Clark]

Benoit Minisini wrote:
> On mardi 09 octobre 2007, Colin Clark wrote:
>   
>> Steven Lobbezoo wrote:
>>     
>>> Le vendredi 5 octobre 2007 01:08, Benoit Minisini a écrit :
>>>       
>>>> On jeudi 04 octobre 2007, Colin Clark wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Benoit Minisini wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> On jeudi 04 octobre 2007, Colin Clark wrote:
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Benoit Minisini wrote:
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> On mercredi 03 octobre 2007, Colin Clark wrote:
>>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>>>>> I'm using the 1.9.51 version of Gambas.
>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>> Colin Clark
>>>>>           
>>>> It should not... Strange... Which KDE style do you use?
>>>>         
>>> I have the same (since I installed Suse 10.2). I donnot use KDE, but work
>>> with gnome. KDE is installed however.
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
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>> Hello Steven
>>
>> When I use this feature the cursor flickers, and so do other items on
>> the desktop, so I assume something is taking the focus away from that
>> window.
>> I don't know how to find where the problem is, so as a work-around I use
>> a MessageBox instead of the Balloon.
>>
>> The change is in :
>>
>> gambas2-1.9.90/app/src/gambas2/FDebugInfo.class
>>
>> And the change is:
>>
>> PRIVATE SUB ShowAsBalloon(sMsg AS String)
>>
>>   DIM hIcon AS Picture
>>
>>   sMsg = Replace(sMsg, "\t", "\n")
>>   sMsg = Replace(sMsg, "    ", " ")
>>   sMsg = Replace(sMsg, "&", "&")
>>   sMsg = Replace(sMsg, "<", "<")
>>   sMsg = Replace(sMsg, ">", ">")
>>
>>   IF Left(sMsg) = "!" THEN
>>     sMsg = Mid$(sMsg, 2)
>>     hIcon = Picture["icon:/32/error"]
>>   ELSE
>>     hIcon = Picture["icon:/32/info"]
>>   ENDIF
>>
>>   'Balloon(sMsg, objForm, hIcon, Mouse.ScreenX - objForm.ScreenX,
>> Mouse.ScreenY - objForm.ScreenY)
>>   ' Balloon(sMsg, Design.BalloonControl, hIcon, Design.BalloonX,
>> Design.BalloonY)
>> 'Use a MessageBox instead
>>   Message.Info(sMsg)
>>
>> END
>>
>>
>> Colin Clark
>>
>>     
>
> It seems to be a problem with the window-manager. I will try with Gnome & 
> Metacity if it happens the same thing. Matacity is known to not respect all 
> the freedesktop window-manager specifications.
>
> Regards,
>
>   
Hello Benoit
I do not know if this information is of any help, however.....

I have just installed Xubuntu 7.04 on a laptop. With whatever the 
default desktop environment is (Xfce ?) the same behaviour as with Gnome 
is shown.


Colin Clark