[jbosstools-dev] Text fields not editable after opening and closing a dropdown menu

[Peter Palaga]

Hi André,

Please have a look at the screencast: http://youtu.be/wfBlrF28qp8

Peter

On 2012-09-26 16:34, André Dietisheim wrote:
> Hi Peter
>
> I could actually not reproduce that. Could you please screencast it so
> that I can double-check I do exactly what you're telling me to do?
>
> Cheers
> André
>
> On 09/26/2012 03:44 PM, Peter Palaga wrote:
>> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>>
>> I was not able to find any sign of this bug on bugs.eclipse.com although
>> I am experiencing it since Eclipse 3.7.
>> Probably, it is Linux or even KDE specific.
>>
>> Does anybody know if it is filed somewhere?
>>
>> Could please anybody try to reproduce it under Gnome, Mac or Windows?
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> (1) File > New > Java Project
>>
>> (2) Open the dropdown menu of any combo box (there are three of them
>> there) either by mouse or keyboard. Close the dropdown menu in any way
>> (focus out, select an item or hit space)
>>
>> (3) Focus the Project Name text field and try to type some character.
>> UNEXPECTED: No char appears in the text field.
>>
>> Reproducible also in other dialogs, e.g. SVN Commit, Git Create Tag, ...
>>
>>
>> Workaround:
>>
>> (i) Paste some text into the text field (use either context menu of the
>> text field or middle-click)
>>
>> (ii) Cut some part of the text in the text field away (select by mouse
>> and context menu > Cut)
>>
>> After (ii) the text field accepts keyboard events again.
>>
>> Note that (i) is necessary only if there is no text in the text field.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Peter
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