Re: Gorm, cannot drag components into Window or Panel

[John B Thiel]

Installed straight via the package manager in Debian  (aptitude).

Update: AHA!  I found that it's related to the window manager.  The
non-dropping behavior was running on LXDE (version "4+nmu1").  I
switched to XFCE 4.8 (all other system details same as prior), and now
the drag-drop is working.

Additional info: In XFCE now, I see the correct behavior on drag-drop
is that a highlighting border bar appears in the target drop-window
prior to mouse-release.  That border does not appear while dragging in
LXDE.

New minor issues: working under XFCE, I see some glitches with the
Gorm cursor not updating correctly to track the operational mode or
object hovering over -- eg. the duplicate cursor (set when dragging a
new component to the window) stays after the object is dropped;  if
you pass over a text field, the I-bar text cursor stays...



On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Gregory Casamento
<greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
> No it's not related to dual cores.  The machine I test on is a 3GHz Dual
> Core Machine and I have no problems at all.
>
> I've updated to the latest in SVN, and I don't see this.  I'm not sure why
> it's not working for you.
>
> Can you tell me how you installed GNUstep?  From packages or from source?
>
> GC
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:48 PM, John B Thiel <jbthiel@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Platform:
>> Debian (wheezy/testing)  Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae,  SMP, 2 cores,  inside
>> VirtualBox v4.2.1, on Intel dual-core i5
>>
>> Pasteboard:  ps ax | grep gpbs,  reports:
>> /usr/bin/gpbs -GSStartupNotification GSStartup-GPBS --auto --daemon
>>
>> Note: the gpbs only starts up *after* I add a Window (or Panel) to a
>> new empty module.  Prior to that Gorm is running, but the gpbs is not.
>>  (significant?)
>>
>> Could it be related to 2 cores? I will test single if you think it
>> makes a difference.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gregory Casamento
>> <greg.casamento@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > What platform is this on?
>> >
>> > GC
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:53 AM, John B Thiel <jbthiel@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Gorm 1.2.16 on Debian Wheezy:
>> >>
>> >> Gorm starts ok, I can make a new empty module or application.  I can
>> >> drag a Window or Panel to the module, which adds it and opens it.
>> >>
>> >> But then dragging any component from any of the groupings -- like
>> >> Button, Sliders / Grid / Calendar, etc...
>> >> into the new Window/Panel, just results in the component flying back;
>> >> it does not go into the window.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the great work on GNUStep.
>> >>
>> >> -- jbthiel
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ps. Same effect as reported here:
>> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnustep/2006-05/msg00009.html
>> >>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Gregory Casamento
>> > Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant
>> > yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa
>> > (240)274-9630 (Cell)
>> > http://www.gnustep.org
>> > http://heronsperch.blogspot.com
>
>
>
>
> --
> Gregory Casamento
> Open Logic Corporation, Principal Consultant
> yahoo/skype: greg_casamento, aol: gjcasa
> (240)274-9630 (Cell)
> http://www.gnustep.org
> http://heronsperch.blogspot.com