Input server: no method's menu

[anthonylee]

There are no menu in input method tray of DeskBar.

[korli]

As far I remember, the menu is working with the Canna IM. Does the problem appear only with BeCKJ ?

[anthonylee]

Does the problem appear only with BeCKJ ?

No, same problem when only use Canna, in the menu of DeskBar, only show "<empty>".

I noticed this bug probably was connected with BUG of BMenu::Instantiate() when I test "MethodAddonTest" on Haiku.

BMenu::Instantiate() can't do a sub-menu instantiation.

BTW, BTextView's redraw action need to expand a pixel around the region.

[jackburton]

The popup menu of Canna definitely worked in the past, so this is a regression. Will have to test which change caused it.

BTW It's not a good idea to put multiple bug reports in the same ticket. It's better to open a different ticket for the TextView problem.

[jackburton]

Forgot this: The empty menu in canna/BeCKJ could be also caused by a problem in BView scripting. Last time it got broken it was because of that.

[korli]

Actually it's broken since hrev21959. The internal name of the deskbar window changed and is now w>Deskbar instead of Deskbar ... Axel, what was the reason for the change ?

[axeld]

Axel, what was the reason for the change?

Well, it was broken and inconsistent before (SetTitle() would rename it, _InitData() did not). Why is renaming a thread/port a problem for another component? That doesn't sound healthy to me... can you point me to the problematic code so that I get a better understanding of the problem? Of course we could leave out the "w>" in the handler name easily if that's what we have to do :)

[korli]

Replying to axeld:

Well, it was broken and inconsistent before (SetTitle() would rename it, _InitData() did not). Why is renaming a thread/port a problem for another component? That doesn't sound healthy to me... can you point me to the problematic code so that I get a better understanding of the problem? Of course we could leave out the "w>" in the handler name easily if that's what we have to do :)

Have a look in src/servers/input/AddOnManager.cpp method LoadReplicant(). The window specifier is "Deskbar". The handler name is the one used in this case.

[axeld]

The problem should be fixed with hrev23239. Can you confirm? The handler still has the "w>" prefix which is not the case on BeOS - I'll change that after we closed this bug.

[korli]

Thanks Axel. It's fixed.

[axeld]

Thanks for the update! I looked into the handler naming, but BeOS is not consistent here, so I think we should just keep what we have for now - until that proves to be problematic :-)

[anthonylee]

I just try it, the menu shown, then I click the keyboard icon to active canna input method and select "About Canna..." from the popup menu, first time it popup a window and look fine, but second time it can't work likes DeskBar did not invoke a message to input server.

Then I try other menuitems in Canna's popup menu, the same problem occurred. Try BeCJK again, I can't change the interface language from the popup menu too.

[korli]

Could you open a new bug for your last comment please ? Else, it could be forgotten :)