[Geany] file save as edit field steals focus

Russell Treleaven rtreleaven at xxxxx
Fri Mar 30 18:34:19 UTC 2012


On 03/30/2012 02:19 PM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 30/03/2012 19:33, Russell Treleaven a écrit :
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I wonder if this is a bug and if so if it is a geany bug or the tool kit
>> that geany uses.
>>
>> to reproduce
>>      click save
>>      click browser folder
>>      click create folder
>>      type "a\n"
>>      type "b"
>>
>> expected
>>      "b" go into the name field
>> observed
>>      "b" goes into an unamed test field that magically appears
>>
>> see attached png
> "It's not a bug it's a feature", and it's from GTK (the toolkit).
>
> What happens to you is that when you hit "enter" after entering the new
> directory name, the focus in on the file list (where you just edited the
> name) not in the filename entry.
> And the file list has a built-in search-on-type feature that you trigger
> by typing the "b".
>
> So again, that's a GTK thing and I doubt we can reasonably do anything
> about it.  If you still think this is a problem, you could try reporting
> it to the GTK porject.
>
>
Just check its been reported 
*https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596841*

Keep up the good work.

Thanks,

Russell Treleaven



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