#22 Large black boxes in popup

[Michael Travers]

In version 1.11, but not 1.10, I get large black boxes at the top of the popup menu (on Ubuntu, Edgy Eft).

[Owen Marshall]

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Yeah, that's fixed in my development version. I'll try to release it soon (there's issues with the popup size that need to be fixed first, though ...)

[Owen Marshall]

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Try pre-release version 1.11.1pre3

Cheers,
Owen

[Reid Rivenburgh]

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I'm using 1.12, and I also see this. It only happens occasionally, and I can't see a pattern. With the same exact mail in my mailbox, it may or may not happen. It may be related to having more mail than will fit on the screen and needing a scrollbar, not sure. When it does happen, the black box looks to be exactly half the popup (the top half).

Otherwise, though, very nice! I use it under KDE with no problems.

[Owen Marshall]

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Yeah, it happens (very) occasionally for me, too - only not often enough to annoy me to fix it! In theory, it shouldn't happen, but I think it's to do with the way I check the size of the popup to see if it needs a scrollbar. If it does, then I re-parent the content of the popup to a scrollable field ... but sometimes, Gtk doesn't like the process of re-parenting and leaves a great big chunk of the popup window as allocated space, but without anything inside it (hence the black box). I'm assuming that this is some obscure bug in either Gtk or Gtk2-perl; however, there may be a way around it that I'm missing.

Ultimately, I should probably re-write the entire popup code and switch everything over to a text field rather than a bunch of labels - but that's a lot of work, it's got its own problems, and right now all my time is taken up by the real world ...

[Reid Rivenburgh]

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Thanks for the reply. I understand real world demands. This isn't a big deal, of course, just a cosmetic issue, but it does sound like it happens more often to me than you (maybe as much as 50% of the time when there are too many items to fit on the screen). I mainly posted because it sounded like you thought this was fixed back in 1.11.x. Maybe the gtk folks will fix it for us one of these days!