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#69941
30.0.50; Faulty fontification of radio button widgets
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Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:01:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 30.0.50
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #32 received at 69941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:38:33 +0200 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:33:57 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:18:29 -0300
>>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 69941 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
>>> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda <at> gmail.com>
>>>
>>> > To fix this bug, do you have a preference between this patch for
>>> > widget-specify-inactive and the attached patch for
>>> > widget-default-create? Or do you have a better fix?
>>> >
>>> > Steve Berman
>>>
>>> I don't really have a better fix. I mean, ideally, we'd find the reason
>>> why the setting behaves differently for the radio-button-choice widget,
>>> and only for the first one in a radio widget, as it seems to me. But
>>> I'll need more time to be able to look into that.
>>>
>>> That said, if Eli is OK with installing a minor hack (with a FIXME,
>>> please), I don't have problems. And since it's a hack (and hopefully
>>> temporary), it's better if we keep it at widget-default-create then.
>>
>> My opinion doesn't matter much in this case. If you two agree on a
>> solution, feel free to install it, even if it is not 110% clean.
>
> I've been using the patch for for widget-specify-inactive in an
> application I'm developing that exercises radio-button-choice widgets,
> but I'll switch to using the patch for widget-default-create instead.
> I've been encountering inconsistent behavior in combination with the use
> of widget-unselected face that I haven't tracked down the cause of yet.
> I don't expect using the patch for widget-default-create will improve
> this issue, but I'll find out. I also plan to test that patch in
> combination with widget-unselected face with checklist widgets, which my
> application currently does not use. I'll report back here before
> committing the patch for widget-default-create (or something else,
> depending on the outcome of further testing).
Just a brief status report: My testing does indeed indicate that the
fontification problem with radio-button-choice also occurs with
checklist widgets, though the pattern appears not to be identical; I
need to do more testing and debugging.
Steve Berman
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