Re: [PATCH v2] ui/cocoa: Fix openFile: deprecation on Big Sur

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Samstag, 9. Januar 2021 00:13:36 CET BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2021, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 03:00:07PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 13:50, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 
wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 at 15:14, Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com> 
wrote:
> >>>> ui/cocoa.m:1188:44: warning: 'openFile:' is deprecated: first
> >>>> deprecated in macOS 11.0 - Use -[NSWorkspace openURL:] instead.>>>> 
> >>>>       [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
> >>>>       
> >>>>         if ([[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openFile: full_file_path] ==
> >>>>         YES) {
> >>>>         
> >>>>                                            ^
> >>>> 
> >>>> /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/
Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Headers/NSWorkspace.h:350:1: note:
> >>>>       'openFile:' has been explicitly marked deprecated here
> >>>> 
> >>>> - (BOOL)openFile:(NSString *)fullPath API_DEPRECATED("Use -[NSWorkspace
> >>>> openURL:] instead.", macos(10.0, 11.0)); ^
> >>>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov@yadro.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>> 
> >>> Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> >> 
> >> So I was just trying to test this patch, and I found that at least
> >> for me the osx menu bar has stopped working in QEMU -- keyboard
> >> shortcuts to it still work but none of the menu buttons respond
> >> to the mouse. Does that happen for anybody else?
> > 
> > There's an old bug when QEMU menu bar is not responsive because it's not
> > properly activated. If you click off qemu and click on the qemu dock
> > icon then it "gets fixed" (cmd-tab works too). Do you hit the issue as
> > described in the article [1]? The code in the article does exactly the
> > same what I'm doing manually. I wanted to fix it but somehow it got
> > postponed for like a whole year :) I might try to make a fix this but
> > note, the issue is not related to the patch.
> 
> This does not sound like the best solution to the problem. There's some
> info on this here (and blog post linked from it):
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7460092/nswindow-makekeyandorderfront-ma
> kes-window-appear-but-not-key-or-front
> 
> Maybe we call makeKeyAndOrderFront: too early before the app is active and
> that's causing the problem? Would it work better if that's moved after
> [NSApp run]? (Maybe we also need canBecomeKey: somewhere but I don't see
> why would that be needed for normal windows.)
> 
> Regards,
> BALATON Zoltan

JFYI: I'm not sure whether that's related to this, but there was a general 
event handling issue with Gtk3 on macOS which caused mouse events being 
dropped:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/986

According to the response, they seem to have fixed it meanwhile with a 
different patch than suggested by me, but I haven't tested theirs.

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck