On 08/14/2014 07:31 PM, yann jautard wrote: > > Le 14/08/2014 16:21, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit : >>> I don't know if it is technically possible to change this behaviour, but >>> I think it could be a great improvement. >>> >> : >>> yann >>> >> Hopefully QuasiModal is not a monster. >> >> For significant dialogs (ones which tend to be open for a while) using the >> QuasiModal >> support in DIALOG_SHIM might be a solution to this. It disables the window >> which invokes >> the dialog, but nothing more. >> >> Without the QuasiModal support, the behaviour is platform specific. On >> linux, I *CAN* >> open the schematic editor while viewing footprint properties and scroll, but >> I cannot >> close the schematic window. So that behaviour is arguably worse, since it >> looks like a >> bug. (It is not a bug that I would respond to. Let's register it as >> folklore.) > > Hi Dick, > > This sounds pretty strange : I'm on linux too, and I can't. Kicad main window > frozen when > dialog opened in pcbnew. > >> >> Remember if you cannot close a major KIWAY_PLAYER using system window >> decorations, this >> might be because you have a dialog window opened elsewhere on linux. >> >> Please see if this patch fixes the sample issue for you. The QuasiModal >> support was >> something I came up with using only the wxWindows API, not a platform >> specific approach. >> I don't know that its been tested enough across all platforms. Bad news is >> that there may >> not be anything I can do except for Linux to fix it, should it not work >> wonderfully on all >> platforms. > > > > Patch solved the issue, seemed to work like a charm... But induced another > issue. Step to > reproduce : > > 1 - open kicad, then open eeschema and pcbnew > 2 - in pcbnew, open the module properties dialog on any part you want. > 3 - go back to eeschema, wich is now responding normally, and open the > component > properties dialog, on the same part or another one (doesn't matters). > 4 - go back to pcbnew, close the dialog, either with OK or Cancel --> dialog > closes, but > pcbnew is frozen and also can't be closed in any normal way. > eeschema still works, you can close the dialog and use it normally. Kicad > main window > works also. > Eeschema can be closed normally, kicad main window also, but when closing > main window, > pcbnew window closes too, but the kicad process is still there and you need > to kill it. > > I thought I will modify eeschema in the same way to test if it does something > else, and so > I noticed the eeschema component properties dialog was alredy a QuasiModal > one. > > And obviously the same test starting with eeschema instead of pcbnew leads to > to opposite > result : eeschema stuck, pcbnew working. > And again, the need to kill kicad process after closing the main window.
Excellent job testing, yann. This will take some time to look into and I started last night. Achieving platform independent and wx version independent results looks very difficult at this point. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
