[PATCH]: menu doesn't appear on right info panel

Pavel Shirshov (pchel) me at pavelsh.pp.ru
Tue Nov 2 12:36:58 UTC 2004


Hello Leonard,

Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 5:13:55 PM, you wrote:

LdO> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:10, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>> Forgot to mention that this patch is better because it avoids
>> the risk of an endless loop.

LdO> Yeah, pchel got this fear of an endless loop because of something you
LdO> said in one of your mails. However, you wrote:

LdO> "I get it that it is guaranteed to have at least one widget that accepts
LdO> WIDGET_FOCUS. So an endless loop is unlikely to happen."

LdO> If the above statement is true, then what is the need for this updated
LdO> patch? Have you checked the code for the existence of a possible
LdO> infinite loop? I haven't noticed it when testing the original patch. I
LdO> somewhat have the feeling this new patch is redundant and pchel's fear
LdO> is only based on a misunderstanding of what was written.

     I excellent understand Pavel's letter. His patch was wrong.

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 Pavel                            mailto:me at pavelsh.pp.ru




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