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

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 30 18:59:52 EDT 2013

Hi, sorry for the delayed response. I'll push an additional keybinding
(c:x;m for rename identifier). Which other ones are you missing?

Sorry I don't have any leads on why popup menus still aren't working.

Robby

On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Laurent wrote:

> Didn't try, but if I disable syntax check, the tooltips don't show, so I
> guess it's the same.
> I correct my previous answer: disabling syntax-check helps a little, but
> the mouse pointer must not move during the whole click (which is quite
> difficult on my touchpad).
> The menu stays longer, but still randomly disappears after some mouse
> moves.
>
> Do you want me to try the patch anyway?
>
> In case this bug is not resolved, would it be possible to have the same
> bindings in a regular window menu?
> (Or at list could you tell me what the bindings are so that I can make a
> plugin script?)
>
> Laurent
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Robby Findler <
> robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> This disables check syntax tooltips. Does that help?
>
> --- a/collects/drracket/private/syncheck/gui.rkt
> +++ b/collects/drracket/private/syncheck/gui.rkt
> @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ If the namespace does not, they are colored the
> unbound color.
>
>              ;; syncheck:add-mouse-over-status : text pos-left pos-right
> string -> void
>              (define/public (syncheck:add-mouse-over-status text pos-left
> pos-right str)
> -              (when arrow-records
> +              (when (and #f arrow-records)
>                  (add-to-range/key text pos-left pos-right
>                                    (make-tooltip-info text pos-left
> pos-right str)
>                                    #f #f)))
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu
>
>
>
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