[ jEdit-devel ] [ jedit-Plugin Bugs-2311948 ] SideKick: CompletionPopup broken

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Plugin Bugs item #2311948, was opened at 2008-11-18 23:41
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Private: No
Submitted By: will69 (will69)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: SideKick: CompletionPopup broken

Initial Comment:
In XML mode, CompletionPopup immediately closes when ErrorList opens, i.e. after typing the first "<". This renders completion completely useless. Bug exists in SideKick 0.7.5 and 0.7.6. 0.7.4 was ok. (jEdit 4.3pre15, 6u10, WinXP).

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Comment By: will69 (will69)
Date: 2008-11-26 21:59

Message:
Thanks for explaining. I agree that ErrorList shouldn't get the focus, at
least I don't see any use case for that. Always leaving ErrorList open does
seem to prevent the problem. However, automatically opening/closing
ErrorList is quite useful, because it saves screen real estate. (I'm using
jEdit in an educational setting with fixed screen resolution. It's a great
way of feedback.)

What about suspending parse-on-keystroke while the popup is open? After
all, the user clearly isn't finished typing while he is selecting an entry
and showing any errors would be premature. One parse afterwards would be
sufficient. Also, the parse timeout (since last keypress) is currently not
honoured while the popup is open: Parse-on-keystroke is invoked x seconds
after the popup opens. Further keypresses don't reset the timeout. Fixing
that in combination with a high timeout value during popups would give the
user a chance to actually make a selection.

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Comment By: Kazutoshi Satoda (k_satoda)
Date: 2008-11-25 18:45

Message:
I can guess this happens since SideKick 0.7.5, where the popup is closed
whenever it loses the focus, and if [Automatically display on error] is
enabled on ErrorList.

The change of SideKick was a fix for a bug; two popups could be opened.
So this won't get back to the old behavior.

This can be fixed if automatic display of ErrorList doesn't get focus at
all. I don't know whether it is possible, for now.　If this is possible,
the summary of this item would be "ErrorList: Don't get focus on
automatic display".

Anyway, disabling [Automatically display on error] seems a workaround.
I hope this is an option for you.

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