colour text corruption
[1/3] from: gchiu::compkarori::co::nz at: 14-May-2001 21:42
I was playing around with the howto on panels, and put them
into my vidwiki pages.
However, a little oddity occurs with the page named
howto-subpanel-4
When you pass your mouse pointer over the text, it
highlights as expected. But after you click on it, the text
stays highlighted gold, and then after that black turns into
gold - Midas effect! And it affects other pages as well :-(
--
Graham Chiu
[2/3] from: gjones05:mail:orion at: 14-May-2001 18:18
From: "Graham Chiu"
> I was playing around with the howto on panels, and put them
> into my vidwiki pages.
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> --
> Graham Chiu
Hi, Graham,
The Midas Touch -- I like the idea! So I tried hooking it up to my
Curriculum Vitae, but, alas, it didn't turn into gold! :-(
This struck me as a curious buglet, and out of curiosity, I tried to
track it
down. It took a long, long time to figure out where it was being
introduced.
The first thing that I discovered is that distributed applications
through the /View desktop can be extremely difficult to debug. After
much struggling, I finally convinced myself that it wasn't your code or
Jeff K.'s (scroll-face.r). The code looked so complicated that I just
assumed that the font color was getting corrupted somehow with all the
face manipulations. It was in the course of using selective probes that
I noticed what was going on. Then I was able to simplify the recreation
of the bug to its simplest form.
The problem can be recreated as follows:
REBOL []
view layout [
txt "Click Me" [
view/new l1: layout [
txt "Click to Close" [
unview l1
]
]
]
]
In the main window, the 'txt path font/colors contains the default color
(black 0.0.0) and the highlight color (255.180.55 if I recall correctly)
in a block. The text is clicked while the cursor is over the text,
which means that the font/color (notice that this is singular) changes
to the highlight color, as one would expect. But the font/colors
(plural) now changes to [255.180.55 255.180.55]. Thereafter, the
default color will remain corrupted. This change stays in effect until
that instance of REBOL/View is unloaded. I cannot find the code the is
doing the corrupting, but I suspect that it is a simple typo (a color is
poked into 'font/colors instead of 'font/color) somewhere in the view
vid code.
The work-around is as follows:
REBOL []
view layout [
txt "Click Me" [
view/new l1: layout [
txt "Click to Close" [
unview l1
]
face/font/colors/1: 0.0.0
]
]
]
This work-around explicitly pokes the black default color back into the
block.
I'll forward this to [feedback--rebol--com] as a possible bug.
Your REBOL Wiki is really taking shape. Keep up the good work.
--Scott Jones
[3/3] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 15-May-2001 12:55
On Mon, 14 May 2001 18:18:28 -0500
"GS Jones" <[gjones05--mail--orion--org]> wrote:
> REBOL []
> view layout [
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> ]
> ]
Hi Scott,
That was very clever of you to isolate the bug. I was
wondering even where to start, but like you I figured it was
a VID bug.
And that's what I call distributed computing - you solve the
problem while I sleep :-)
> Your REBOL Wiki is really taking shape. Keep up the good
> work.
Thanks.
--
Graham Chiu
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