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Mysterious popup text editor on Linux - ComboBoxCellEditor [message #1856646]

Tue, 20 December 2022 17:47

Jonathan Menzies

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Registered: May 2020
Location: California

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Hey there,

When using the dropdown cell editors (ComboBoxCellEditor) on Linux, if the user double clicks on a cell editor, the dropdown is made visible and is given focus. However, if the user starts typing a mysterious popup text editor appears underneath the dropdown and takes the text. This does not appear on windows and I'm having trouble finding out where it comes from.

I'm not sure it's coming from NatTable itself because of it only appearing on Linux but maybe from the underlying SWT code?

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Jonathan

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Re: Mysterious popup text editor on Linux - ComboBoxCellEditor [message #1856648 is a reply to message #1856646]

Tue, 20 December 2022 20:33

Dirk Fauth

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Registered: July 2012

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Can't tell. Haven't seen this before. The control that is opened is the NatCombo, which is actually also a small custom control created by the NatTable project. It seems you have configured free editing for the combobox editor? Maybe again some swt glitch on gtk. Hard to tell why the arrangement of text control and drop down shell is different on Linux.

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Re: Mysterious popup text editor on Linux - ComboBoxCellEditor [message #1856830 is a reply to message #1856648]

Thu, 05 January 2023 02:01

Jonathan Menzies

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Registered: May 2020
Location: California

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We have configured free editing on the cell editor(to allow the user to create a new object if there are none, or edit the description of the currently selected object) and in the drop down (to allow the user to add a new object). I'll check and see if it happens with free editing off, maybe on Linux it's adding it for the dropdown even though there is nothing to edit.

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Re: Mysterious popup text editor on Linux - ComboBoxCellEditor [message #1858866 is a reply to message #1856830]

Thu, 27 April 2023 02:00

Jonathan Menzies

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Registered: May 2020
Location: California

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Hey Dirk,

Just to let you know, the issue turned out to be due to the Table widget from SWT in Linux, for whatever reason in the Linux version it defines a search box for the dropdown that is active unless you set the Table style to "VIRTUAL". This search box seems to be non-functional but it still shows up if you type whilst the dropdown is active and selected.

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