Tooltip window stealing focus

Linux
1

Hi Jules,

On linux, adding a tooltip to one of the texteditor widgets the JuceDemo renders it almost unusable for text input: the tooltip shows up after 2 seconds and steals the focus everytime, it is not possible to type more that 4 or 5 characters before the tooltip shows up. This is something that used to work fine (the focus was not stolen by tooltip windows) in older juce versions (I have a version from April 2010 where it works).

2

That’s odd, I don’t remember changing anything in there.

Does it make a difference if you modify this clause, in juce_linux_Windowing.cpp, inside handleClientMessageEvent()

[code] else if (atom == Atoms::ProtocolList [Atoms::TAKE_FOCUS])
{
if ((getStyleFlags() & juce::ComponentPeer::windowIgnoresKeyPresses) == 0)
{
XWindowAttributes atts;

                ScopedXLock xlock;
                if (clientMsg->window != 0
                     && XGetWindowAttributes (display, clientMsg->window, &atts))
                {
                    if (atts.map_state == IsViewable)
                        XSetInputFocus (display, clientMsg->window, RevertToParent, clientMsg->data.l[1]);
                }
            }
        }

[/code]

3

No, it does not change anything :frowning:

4

There was the override_redirect flag that was used with “alwaysontop” windows in createWindow() , in the old JUCE version that used to work. Adding it again fixes this issue with tooltips, but it has probably been removed for a good reason , I guess.

5

Hmm, that’s a tricky one. the override_redirect was indeed causing problems with window managers failing to correctly decorate the window. Not sure what to do about that…

6

Yes there is probably some other property to set to prevent the window manager from transfering the focus to the tooltip window but I can figure what it is. A similar issue probably happens also to popup menus, when one of them is displayed , the parent window loses its “active window” status (the titlebar becomes grayed), this also did not happen with the older juce versions

7

Yeah, I need to devote a bit more love to the linux version. I’ll take a look when I get chance, but let me know if you come across any clues…

8

Just to say that I also have this issue, it happens with menus too.

When I click to open a menu, the main window loses focus (my window decoration color gets grey instead of blue).
I am 100% about this - tooltips/menus create a new X11 window, which seems wrong.

I believe this is just a matter of Window flags, but I know nothing about how X11 works… :frowning:

9

Me neither. In fact, I don’t think anybody does. It’s a pretty dreadful system.

10

It seems that GTK menus do set the override_redirect flag on their windows, so I’m not sure if it can be avoided for this kind of windows.

As a temporary fix, I’m adding the override_redirect flag in createWindow when the window is created with alwaysontop and windowIsTemporary (in the old version , it was set for all windows with ‘isAlwaysOnTop’):

       // CHANGED
       swa.override_redirect = (getComponent()->isAlwaysOnTop() && (styleFlags & windowIsTemporary)) ? True : False;
        swa.event_mask = getAllEventsMask();

        windowH = XCreateWindow (display, parentToAddTo != 0 ? parentToAddTo : root,
                                 0, 0, 1, 1,
                                 0, depth, InputOutput, visual,
                                 CWBorderPixel | CWColormap | CWBackPixmap | CWEventMask | CWOverrideRedirect /* CHANGED */,
                                 &swa);

It seems to works fine for both menus and tooltip windows, except when sub-menus are involved, in which case the focus seems to go back and forth between the menu and the main window.

11

Ok, thanks! I’ll take a look at that today.

12

I’m jumping in the bandwagon, but did you see my other post about how to do a menu with the new GTK/Gnome (so they are like the other windows, that is a single menu bar on top à la Mac)
You have some documentation in the link inside that post. While you’re at it, it might worth doing it the way Gnome is doing.

Link: http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7173#p45289