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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 4487] I/O Graph dropdown boxes not working correctly

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:21:01 -0800 (PST)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4487

--- Comment #10 from Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-02-15 20:20:59 CET ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> OK: I've done some testing of how mouse clicks seem to work in gtk_combo_box
> and in gtk_option_menu for:
>   1. Gtk2.16 vs Gtk 2.18;
>   2. Windows 7 vs Fedora 12 Linux; (See below addt'l for environment info)
....
> The two behaviors:
> 
> 1. Clicking on the widget opens the drop-down; a second click is needed to 
>    close the dropdown.
> 
> 2. The dropdown remains visible only as long as the mouse button is held down.
..... 
> 
> I did some further testing (via a test program which displayed both
>   a gtk_option_menu dropdown and a gtk_combo_box dropdown) and found that:
> 
>     My Windows 7: Most cases exhibited behavior #1
>                             Gtk 2.16    Gtk 2.18
>        gtk_option_menu         #1          #2
>        gtk_combo_box           #1          #1
> 
>     My Fedora Linux:  All cases mostly exhibited behavior #2.
>                             Gtk 2.16    Gtk 2.18
>        gtk_option_menu         #2*         #2*
>        gtk_combo_box           #2*         #2*
> 
>        *mostly: I got a sense that the behavior is somehow timing dependent.
> 

First of all, thanks Bill, for this extensive evaluation.

I think we can conclude that, since gtk_option_menu() is deprecated in favor of
gtk_combo_box(), we should forge ahead with the changeover, maintaining the
platform specific behavior, which isn't a problem IMHO.

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