Re: A Patch for Partially Blocked Plugin Messages in EVMSGUI

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 09:18 -0600, Changju Gao wrote:
> Hi Luciano,
> 
> Nice to get your message. The revised patch works fine here. 
> I verified that EVMSN doesn't have the problem. 
> 
> Although I like to take the credit, but Stewart Peatross, also 
> from Novell, actually found this bug. 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> - Changju Gao
> 

Hi Changju,

I've checked in the changes to CVS. Thanks again!

Kevin and Steve will get a kick in the fact I check in a fix to the GUI
once every 18 to 24 months nowadays. I'm good for this year guys! :-)

> 
> >>> Luciano Chavez <[email protected]> 4/9/2007 9:03 AM >>>
> On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:31 -0600, Changju Gao wrote:
> > When starting EVMS engine, EVMSUI uses a "startup_window" 
> > to display status, like "Discovering segments". In the meantime, if 
> > a plugin sends back a question, EVMSGUI uses a message 
> > window to display the question and wait for responses. 
> > 
> > However, the message window is placed behind the startup window. 
> > And the message is partially blocked. Users cannot move the message
> > to the front.
> > 
> > The message does attempt to make itself on top of the main window, 
> > but the problem is that the main window doesn't exist yet. 
> > 
> > So I added code to make the message window a transient of the startup
> > window, if the main window is not there. This essentially puts the message
> > window at the very top. 
> > 
> > 
> > Created a patch for 2.5.5 and tested on my SLES10 box. 
> 
> Hi Changju,
> 
> Thank you for the patch! You found a GUI bug that apparently has been
> there a long time! I'm not sure why I never considered the case where an
> alert comes in during the startup window because I am sure I saw some in
> the past.
> 
> I made one slight stylistic change to your patch and so can you apply
> the attached patch and verify it still works as before? If it does, I
> will commit the changes to CVS.
> 
> Also, I looked at the ncurses UI code and I think it is OK but if you
> haven't tried the same scenario with evmsn, can you and report if it
> works as expected or not?
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
-- 
Luciano Chavez <[email protected]>
IBM


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