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24.0.50; mouse highlighting vanishes upon unsplitting window

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, 7464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#7464: 24.0.50; mouse highlighting vanishes upon unsplitting window
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:20:14 +0200

30 mar 2012 kl. 10:57 skrev Eli Zaretskii:

>> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
>> Cc: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>,  cyd <at> gnu.org,  7464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:45:13 +0200
>> 
>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:00:49 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:43:52 +0200
>>>> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
>>>> CC: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>, cyd <at> gnu.org, 
>>>> 7464 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>>> 
>>>> It probably has something to do with the fact that Gtk+ scrollbars 
>>>> aren't handeled by the display engine and we therefore have to force a 
>>>> redraw of the scroll bars at certain points so the scrollbars look ok. 
>>>> Presumably one of these redraws does something that triggers a redraw of 
>>>> mouse highlight?  It might be that a redraw of the scroll bar generates 
>>>> some X expose/configuration event that in turn invokes the display 
>>>> engine.  I'm just speculating.
>>> 
>>> I think your speculation is exactly right.  Perhaps Stephen or someone
>>> else who has access to a GTK build could confirm that an extra
>>> redraw of mouse highlight is triggered at some point in this scenario.
>> 
>> Can you tell me what I have to type in gdb to do this?
> 
> Jan, could you please point out where in the sources we force the
> redraw of the GTK scroll bars?

The one relevant here is probably in gtkutil.c, xg_update_scrollbar_pos at the end of the function.
We also do it in xterm.c, x_clear_frame and x_clear_frame_area.

	Jan D.

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