active menu, GTK and commands

active menu, GTK and commands

[Alex V. Koval]

Hi

What I really like about new GTK interface in emacs is that I can make 
any menu floating, and see it. This would be extermely
useful when working with multiple files to make 'Buffers' menu floating 
and see current buffers list. But I have a big issue
using this approach, which prevents me using any of floating menu's.

If make any menu as floating window (with the mouse, press on 
---------------), and then I want
to type some command in command line (M-x) I experience newline and 
spaces and tabs inserted as garbage to the command
line (3 spaces or tabs and single newline).

As soon as I close the external floating menu, all returns to its normal 
state and I can enter commands without removing garbage
in prior.

Do you have any hints ? I have tried to look at emacs-devel archives 
with no luck.

Here is how it looks:
http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs1.gif
http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs2.gif

If I enter any command, I get "[No match]" until I remove garbage..

Thanks.

Alex

Re: active menu, GTK and commands

[Robert J. Chassell]

   ... make any menu as floating window..., and ...  type some command
   in command line (M-x) I experience newline and spaces and tabs
   inserted as garbage to the command ...

This does not happen with me.

Using today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Fri, 2005 Oct 28 12:02 UTC
GNU Emacs 22.0.50.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10)
started with

    emacs/src/emacs -Q -D

and then starting the menu bar by evaluating     (menu-bar-mode 1)

I created a separate, floating Buffers menu.  Then, typing `M-x pwd'
worked fine, with no errors .

Incidentally, neither

       http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs1.gif
nor
       http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs2.gif

succeeded; instead I received this message:

     Debugging Notice

             Zope has encountered a problem publishing your object.

             Cannot locate object at: http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs2.gif

-- 
    Robert J. Chassell                         
    bob@rattlesnake.com                         GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
    http://www.rattlesnake.com                  http://www.teak.cc

Re: active menu, GTK and commands

[Jan D.]

Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>   ... make any menu as floating window..., and ...  type some command
>   in command line (M-x) I experience newline and spaces and tabs
>   inserted as garbage to the command ...
>
>This does not happen with me.
>  
>

Nor me.  Can you (Alex) resubmit the bug report with M-x 
report-emacs-bug instead so we can see the versions you are using?  
Also, does it happen with emacs -Q?

    Jan D.

active menu, GTK and commands

[Alex V. Koval]

Hi

What I really like about new GTK interface in emacs is that I can make 
any menu floating, and see it. This would be extermely
useful when working with multiple files to make 'Buffers' menu floating 
and see current buffers list. But I have a big issue
using this approach, which prevents me using any of floating menu's.

If make any menu as floating window (with the mouse, press on 
---------------), and then I want
to type some command in command line (M-x) I experience newline and 
spaces and tabs inserted as garbage to the command
line (3 spaces or tabs and single newline).

As soon as I close the external floating menu, all returns to its normal 
state and I can enter commands without removing garbage
in prior.

Do you have any hints ? I have tried to look at emacs-devel archives 
with no luck.

Here is how it looks:
http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs1.gif
http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs2.gif

If I enter any command, I get "[No match]" until I remove garbage..

Thanks.

Alex

Re: active menu, GTK and commands

[Alex V. Koval]

Hello Robert,
Hello Jan,

Thank you for so fast answers! In fact, now I found that I can not 
reproduce it at office (on AMD64),
the problem appears to be only at home computer.

I will re-do the testing there and will submit better bug report 
(including report-emacs-bug).

Also I mentioned incorrect URLs, it must be:

http://www.halogen-dg.com/alex/emacs/emacs1.gif
http://www.halogen-dg.com/alex/emacs/emacs2.gif


Regards,

Alex


Robert J. Chassell wrote:

>   ... make any menu as floating window..., and ...  type some command
>   in command line (M-x) I experience newline and spaces and tabs
>   inserted as garbage to the command ...
>
>This does not happen with me.
>
>Using today's GNU Emacs CVS snapshot, Fri, 2005 Oct 28 12:02 UTC
>GNU Emacs 22.0.50.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.6.10)
>started with
>
>    emacs/src/emacs -Q -D
>
>and then starting the menu bar by evaluating     (menu-bar-mode 1)
>
>I created a separate, floating Buffers menu.  Then, typing `M-x pwd'
>worked fine, with no errors .
>
>Incidentally, neither
>
>       http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs1.gif
>nor
>       http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs2.gif
>
>succeeded; instead I received this message:
>
>     Debugging Notice
>
>             Zope has encountered a problem publishing your object.
>
>             Cannot locate object at: http://www.halogen-dg.com/emacs2.gif
>
>  
>