Re: Some bugs in Forms

On Saturday 27 March 2004 01:09 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> 1) I entered "test" into the password field and after leaving the field
> the label says correctly "test". Then I moved the cursor back to the
> password field, so that ist stand after the last "*" and enter "s".
> After leaving the field the label changes to "****s".

This is now fixed in svn.


> 5) On the dialogs tab, I press the button "Display a message box" the
> message box opens and I can enter some text. The first letter enters is
> show using the same big font as the lable above the textbox. entering
> the a second letter the whole text chages using a smaller font. This
> happens only the first time the message box is opened.

I can't reproduce this in the svn code but I don't know what changes we've 
made that would have fixed it.

> I never programed in python, but I would like to get involved into the
> project. So I would appreciate any hints where to look for these bugs to
> get a better understanding even if I'm not able to correct them (yet).

The fix for #1 was in gnue-forms/src/GFDisplayHandler.py  The standard field 
handler sets the field value based upon the displayed value in beginEdit.  
This doesn't work with the display is **** :)  Overriding that function in 
the PasswordDisplayHandler class got us around that.

One place to start learning a little about how gnue apps work in the gnue 
common developers guide.  It shows a few of the basic systems most gnue apps 
share.   The online manual is a little better than the one in the last 
release and I will hopefully be adding more this week.  After that it would 
depend upon what parts of gnue interest you the most.

Take Care,
james