[Gambas-user] Events not firing...

[Stephen]

On 07/10/2014 02:44 PM, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2014, 14:26 -0400 schrieb Stephen:
>> On 07/10/2014 02:04 PM, Charlie Reinl wrote:
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 10.07.2014, 13:36 -0400 schrieb Stephen:
>>>> On 07/10/2014 01:14 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>>>> Le 10/07/2014 19:05, Stephen a écrit :
>>>>>> On 07/10/2014 12:54 PM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>>>>>>> Le 10/07/2014 18:46, Stephen a écrit :
>>>>>>>> Fedora 20 Mate
>>>>>>>> Gambas 3.5.90
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Create a project, place a textbox on FMain.
>>>>>>>>         Right click on the text boc, select events, select KeyRelease
>>>>>>>>         Place a STOP in the keyrelease event for the textbox
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Run the program, select the textbox, press a key (and release
>>>>>>>> it)....nothing happens... keyrelease does not fire. Try KeyPress... same
>>>>>>>> thing. *sigh*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No problem there. Please always provide a project, otherwise how can we
>>>>>>> know what you are doing exactly?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a small test project that does what I describe (at least on my
>>>>>> system anyway).
>>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, everthing works as expected here.
>>>>>
>>>> On a side note, the gotfocus event fires... and the change event for the
>>>> textbox also fires, I added a combobox and tested its keypress and
>>>> keyrelease events and they do not fire. So the problem appears isolated
>>>> to keypress and keyrelease. I'm going to revert back to 3.5.4 as 3.5.90
>>>> did nothing to correct the listbox issue and I can work around it by
>>>> putting it in a list container.
>>>>
>>> Salut Stephen,
>>>
>>> what happens, if you create a new user and you make your tests ?
>>>
>> Hi Charlie.
>>
>>     I switched back to 3.5.4. The keypress/release issue does not exist
>> in 3.5.4 but does exist in 3.5.90; the environment in which either of
>> these gambas version runs, as well as my UID are the constants, creating
>> another user didn't even show up on my radar.
>>
> Salut Stephen,
>
> the reason why I used/use that trick, is, my box started at least with
> Ubuntu 06.06 and was not newly installed, only updated.
> My user is a bit older I brought in the home disk from a gentoo
> installation with KDE at that time.
>
> So some times the beast how you call it makes strange things (like
> yours) .
>
> But I found out, a newly created user is clean and often reacts also
> clean, the beast in his cage.
>
> That is the reason why I wrote that.
>
I understand, good thinking. I will spin up a new VM with the same 
configuration and test the theory. Right now I have to make some headway 
on this project and can't afford the cycles as I must have things 
quasi-working by tomorrow afternoon... it is shaping up to be one of 
those long night coding sessions.

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Stephen A. Bungay, Prop.
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