wl_tablet specification draft

[Giulio Camuffo]

2014-07-02 1:55 GMT+03:00 Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On 07/01/2014 12:35 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>>
>> "A blink in the highlighting"?
>
>
> Yes. Say the client wants to highlight the button being pressed and it has
> popped up a menu, If the mouse is moved from the button to the menu, the
> client wants to keep the button highlighted.
>
> If in fact the server sends an "exit" event and then an "enter" event for
> the menu, a naive client will draw the button un-highlighted (since as far
> as it knows the exit was because the mouse entered a different client's
> window) and then when it sees the enter it has to draw it again highlighted.
> If it does a commit, the user will see it blink. This is wrong.

If the client hasn't received a "popup_done" event it knows the popup
is open and has the focus, so it knows it should keep the button
highlighted in your example.
Not sure if you have other examples, I can't think of any where having
enter/exit events is a problem.

--
Giulio

>
> Now obviously the client can wait (I think actually zero time because it
> should be in the same block of events) and see if there is an enter event,
> but it would be a lot easier on the logic if it did not get the enter event
> at all!
>
> This is not a joke, these sort of problems make toolkits annoying and
> complex to write.
>
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