Re: what's currently broken in dillo

Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 05:17:06AM +0000, eocene wrote:
> Jeremy wrote:
> > The  Dillo source  does  something  a little  devious.   It refers  to
> > fl_oldfocus, but this symbol is not declared in any header, it is just
> > shared between two *.c files via an extern declaration (with a comment
> > that this is a hack to  make Fl_Group work).  Something has changed in
> > libfltk.so to stop the linker finding  this symbol.  I don't know what
> > (I am not experienced in debugging linking failures.)
> 
> To the best of my recollection, something tricky was necessary because
> Fl_Group didn't have the idea that the group itself could have focus
> instead of one of the children. I can't immediately see how to get it
> to work right without fl_oldfocus, but if we can't link, we have nothing,
> so I'll take out fl_oldfocus, and hopefully someone will figure out
> something at some point...

  Good try, wandering focus got so annoying that I had to start scratching
the itch! ;)

  FYI, I'm testing a patch that so far behaves OK.

  
-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-
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