[racket] DRRacket right-click menu fragility in Linux.

From: Laurent (laurent.orseau at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 18 08:28:59 EDT 2013

Yes, apparently.

In DrRacket, deactivating syntax check does not change the problem.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote:

> If you run "gracket" does the right click menu work better there?
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are there any news about that bug? I miss the right-click menu very
>> much...
>>
>> Laurent
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Could what you're experiencing have anything to do with tooltips? It
>>> seems my right-click menu doesn't stay up whenever there's a tooltip out.
>>> Which is, like, every time I want it.
>>>
>>> Neil ⊥
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/04/2012 07:55 PM, Ray Racine wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yea, I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, but the up/down button
>>>> change did not fix the issue.   In fact I'd say no impact positive or
>>>> negative.
>>>>
>>>> It seems to happen when there is additional drawing 'complexity' in
>>>> co-occurrence with the pop up drawing area.  I.e. the pop up menu is
>>>> drawing where arrows are drawn or error highlighting is occurring etc.
>>>> Also maybe when the pop up menu area is near the 'edge' of the Dr window
>>>> and or pane area.  But again the problem is not consistently
>>>> reproducible yet happens more often then not.  Its not a once in a blue
>>>> moon that thing.  Sometimes an attempt to right click pop up  menu will
>>>> fail numerous times in a row then succeed for no apparent reason.
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 4, 2012 9:07 PM, "Robby Findler" <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu
>>>> <mailto:robby at eecs.**northwestern.edu <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu
>>>>     <mailto:stchang at ccs.neu.edu>> wrote:
>>>>      > On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Robby Findler
>>>>      > <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu
>>>>     <mailto:robby at eecs.**northwestern.edu <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>      >> I've pushed a fix to this. Thanks to Matthew for looking into
>>>> it and
>>>>      >> sorting it out and sorry for the delay.
>>>>      >
>>>>      > I'm using git head and I'm still seeing this problem (Ubuntu
>>>>     11.10). I
>>>>      > can't reliably reproduce it but in case it helps, it most
>>>> recently
>>>>      > happened when I selected tack arrows and now I can't bring up the
>>>>     menu
>>>>      > to untack the arrows anymore.
>>>>      >
>>>>
>>>>     The particular fix Matthew pointed me to is popping up the menu on a
>>>>     mouse down event, not a mouse up event.
>>>>
>>>>     http://git.racket-lang.org/**plt/blobdiff/**
>>>> 27aa99944657c5827eee3772f715df**7dd971d1e0..**
>>>> 0377bda9474f8848a97509ace89817**4c83361006:/collects/**
>>>> framework/private/keymap.rkt<http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/blobdiff/27aa99944657c5827eee3772f715df7dd971d1e0..0377bda9474f8848a97509ace898174c83361006:/collects/framework/private/keymap.rkt>
>>>>
>>>>     So I guess there's something else going on, too (because that's the
>>>>     code that pops up the menu with the check syntax items).
>>>>
>>>>     Robby
>>>>
>>>>
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