Keyboard focus issues under Linux

[nkiesel]

Hi,

OpenCPN looses keybord focus for me whenever it shows (or rather closes) a popup window. The focus shifts to the popup window, but does not shift back to the main window.

This gets really annoying when using the keyboard to pan in an area with lots of charts (e.g. San Francisco Bay) because of the "Chart calculation" progress popups.

I currently disable these chart progress popups (luckily only requires changing a single default in the source), but the same problem exists for all other popups (waypoints etc.)

This makes using OpenCPN under Linux w/o a mouse (or other pointing device) nearly impossible. Any idea how to fix this?

commit 012496c (HEAD)
Author: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@metricstream.com>
Date: Mon Oct 12 10:30:13 2015 -0700

hide chart progress bar

Under Linux that results in loosing the keyboard focus. Trade-off,
but I rather keep the focus than the popup.

diff --git include/Osenc.h include/Osenc.h
index 1839e10..c2838f5 100644
--- include/Osenc.h
+++ include/Osenc.h
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ public:
VC_ElementVector *pVCArray);

// SENC creation, by Version desired...
- int createSenc124(const wxString& FullPath000, const wxString& SENCFileName, bool b_showProg = true);
+ int createSenc124(const wxString& FullPath000, const wxString& SENCFileName, bool b_showProg = false);
void SetLODMeters(double meters){ m_LOD_meters = meters;}
void setRegistrar( S57ClassRegistrar *registrar ){ m_poRegistrar = registrar; }
void setRefLocn( double lat, double lon){ m_ref_lat = lat; m_ref_lon = lon; }

[bdbcat]

nkiesel...

I tested Beta 4.1.925, linux Kubuntu 12.04.
Could not reproduce this problem. Panning around SF Bay at large scale in vector chart mode, the SENC file progress dialogs pop up as expected. When they finish and close, then the keyboard focus returns to the canvas. So continuous keyboard panning works fine.

Have I got the test case right?
Is there any other simple use case that demonstrates the problem?
What distro of linux are you using?

Thanks
Dave

[nkiesel]

Hmm, that is exactly what I do as well. I'm using Debian sid (aka unstable) 64bit, which comes with libwxgtk3.0-0 (version: 3.0.2+dfsg-1), and I compiled myself from git master.

I will try to use the precompiled version and/or run in a VM with an older Debian to see if that makes a difference. Stay tuned.