Re: [TCLCORE] Purpose of mmObjType vs pixelObjType

[Alexandre F. <ale...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Pat Thoyts
<pat...@us...> wrote:
> "Alexandre Ferrieux" <ale...@gm...> writes:
>
>>On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Donal K. Fellows
>><don...@ma...> wrote:
>>> Alexandre Ferrieux wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I propose to just patch Tk_CanvasGetCoordFromObj so that it calls
>>>> GetDoublePixels instead of the current shenanigans.
>>>> Any objection ?
>>>
>>> It's worth trying and seeing what blows up in the test suite. And then
>>> deciding whether the answer that the test suite was looking for was the
>>> right thing or not. (I suspect that getting rid of the shenanigans will
>>> be a good thing, but let's double-check that...)
>>
>>Ready to do so; however right now HEAD has a bunch (12) of Tk test
>>failures (XP SP2):
>>
>>==== bind-22.10 HandleEventGenerate FAILED
>>==== bind-22.10 FAILED
>>==== frame-2.8 toplevel configuration options FAILED
>>==== frame-2.8 FAILED
>>==== text-19.16 DeleteChars procedure, updates affecting topIndex FAILED
>>==== text-19.16 FAILED
>>==== text-33.11 peer widget -start, -end FAILED
>>==== text-33.11 FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2 miscellaneous: lines wrap but are still too long FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2 FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.1 miscellaneous: lines wrap but are still too long FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.1 FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.2 miscellaneous: lines wrap but are still too long FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.2 FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.3 miscellaneous: lines wrap but are still too long FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.3 FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.4 miscellaneous: lines wrap but are still too long FAILED
>>==== textDisp-29.2.4 FAILED
>>==== textDisp-32.2 elide and tags FAILED
>>==== textDisp-32.2 FAILED
>>==== textImage-3.2 delayed image management FAILED
>>==== textImage-3.2 FAILED
>>==== + winDialog-1.1 hanging (bgerror window saying :
>>
>>    while executing
>>"testwinevent $::tk_dialog $button WM_LBUTTONDOWN 1 0x000a000b"
>>    (procedure "Click" line 2)
>>
>>Yes, the error string is _empty_).
>>
>>Am I alone to witness all this ?
>>I hesitate to fiddle with the coordinate system with such a background...
>
> I get some text widget failures and 2 canvas fails. I certainly dont
> see the winDialog one. Is that always happening for you? If so are you
> using a non-English version of windows or something other than XP
> maybe?

Yes, it is deterministic :-(
Yes, I'm using a French version of Windows, but is it an excuse ?
As I said, it is Windows XP SP2...

-Alex