The "Help" in ClassDesigner.py - how to get rid of it?

[Chris G-6]

When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops
up, quite normal.  However there seems to be no way to get rid of it,
how can I close it and get control back to the main window?

Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to copy
anything to the clipboard.

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[Ed Leafe]

On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Chris G wrote:

> When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops
> up, quite normal.  However there seems to be no way to get rid of it,
> how can I close it and get control back to the main window?

        Click on the Close button for the form.

> Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to copy
> anything to the clipboard.


        Really? What platform are you running on?

        We use that as a handy way for people reporting problems to get the  
version information for their installation.

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[Uwe Grauer-5]

Chris G wrote:
> When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops
> up, quite normal.  However there seems to be no way to get rid of it,
> how can I close it and get control back to the main window?
>

Did you try to click the "X" in the upper right corner of the About
window? Another way to close the window is Alt-F4.

> Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to copy
> anything to the clipboard.
>

Copying to the clipboard works for me under linux.

Uwe





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[Chris G-6]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 11:58:57AM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2008, at 11:51 AM, Chris G wrote:
>
> > When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops
> > up, quite normal.  However there seems to be no way to get rid of it,
> > how can I close it and get control back to the main window?
>
> Click on the Close button for the form.
>
???  :-)

There isn't a close button.  What pops up when I click on help is a
blue window with a violet pane in the middle (where the Dabo version
etc. appear).  It only has the "Copy Info" button at the bottom right
and nothing else, certainly no Close button.


> > Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to copy
> > anything to the clipboard.
>
> Really? What platform are you running on?
>
Linux, Fedora 8, fvwm window manager.


> We use that as a handy way for people reporting problems to get the  
> version information for their installation.
>
Yes, I guessed that's what it's supposed to do.

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[Chris G-6]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote:
> Chris G wrote:
> > When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops
> > up, quite normal.  However there seems to be no way to get rid of it,
> > how can I close it and get control back to the main window?
> >
>
> Did you try to click the "X" in the upper right corner of the About
> window? Another way to close the window is Alt-F4.
>
No title bar on the pop-up window, hence no buttons there.  Alt-F4
just iconises the pop-up, since it's a modal box that's not much help,
I still can't get input to the main Dabo window.


> > Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to copy
> > anything to the clipboard.
> >
>
> Copying to the clipboard works for me under linux.
>
What on earth have I done to it then?  :-)

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[Uwe Grauer-5]

Chris G wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote:
>> Chris G wrote:
>>> When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops
>>> up, quite normal.  However there seems to be no way to get rid of it,
>>> how can I close it and get control back to the main window?
>>>
>> Did you try to click the "X" in the upper right corner of the About
>> window? Another way to close the window is Alt-F4.
>>
> No title bar on the pop-up window, hence no buttons there.  Alt-F4
> just iconises the pop-up, since it's a modal box that's not much help,
> I still can't get input to the main Dabo window.
>
>

No title bar, so no close functionality?
For me Alt-F4 closes the about-window instead of iconising it.
Maybe you should use a different window manager.

>>> Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to copy
>>> anything to the clipboard.
>>>
>> Copying to the clipboard works for me under linux.
>>
> What on earth have I done to it then?  :-)
>

Maybe you have a misconfigured (broken?) window manager - i don't know.
I do not know enough about fvwm.

Uwe




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[Ed Leafe]

On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Chris G wrote:

> There isn't a close button.  What pops up when I click on help is a
> blue window with a violet pane in the middle (where the Dabo version
> etc. appear).  It only has the "Copy Info" button at the bottom right
> and nothing else, certainly no Close button.
>
>>> Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to  
>>> copy
>>> anything to the clipboard.
>>
>> Really? What platform are you running on?
>>
> Linux, Fedora 8, fvwm window manager.

        OK, I guess it must be fvwm then. On Mac, Windows and Gtk, all the  
windows have a title bar with a close button in it. Guess I'll have to  
add one onto the form.


-- Ed Leafe





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[Ed Leafe]

On Oct 5, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:

>> Linux, Fedora 8, fvwm window manager.
>
> OK, I guess it must be fvwm then. On Mac, Windows and Gtk, all the
> windows have a title bar with a close button in it. Guess I'll have to
> add one onto the form.

        OK, I've updated the code to add an 'OK' button that closes the form.  
And while looking through the code, I discovered that pressing Enter  
or Space will also dismiss the form.

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[Chris G-6]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:53:47PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote:

> Chris G wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:01:25PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote:
> >> Chris G wrote:
> >>> When you click on Help in ClassDesigner.py an "About Dabo" box pops
> >>> up, quite normal.  However there seems to be no way to get rid of it,
> >>> how can I close it and get control back to the main window?
> >>>
> >> Did you try to click the "X" in the upper right corner of the About
> >> window? Another way to close the window is Alt-F4.
> >>
> > No title bar on the pop-up window, hence no buttons there.  Alt-F4
> > just iconises the pop-up, since it's a modal box that's not much help,
> > I still can't get input to the main Dabo window.
> >
> >
>
> No title bar, so no close functionality?
> For me Alt-F4 closes the about-window instead of iconising it.
> Maybe you should use a different window manager.
>
> >>> Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to copy
> >>> anything to the clipboard.
> >>>
> >> Copying to the clipboard works for me under linux.
> >>
> > What on earth have I done to it then?  :-)
> >
>
> Maybe you have a misconfigured (broken?) window manager - i don't know.
> I do not know enough about fvwm.
>

I don't think so, I've been using fvwm for *years*, it's much more
'mature' than what comes by default with Gnome or KDE.  Nothing else
has had any problems with it either.

Now it *could* be that I've misconfigured something but it seems
unlikely to me.

The only thing I can think of is that Dabo's Help window has an odd
name which happens to be similar to somethig else that I'm handling in
a special way.

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[Chris G-6]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:30:02PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Chris G wrote:
>
> > There isn't a close button.  What pops up when I click on help is a
> > blue window with a violet pane in the middle (where the Dabo version
> > etc. appear).  It only has the "Copy Info" button at the bottom right
> > and nothing else, certainly no Close button.
> >
> >>> Oh, and what does the "Copy Info" button do?  It doesn't seem to  
> >>> copy
> >>> anything to the clipboard.
> >>
> >> Really? What platform are you running on?
> >>
> > Linux, Fedora 8, fvwm window manager.
>
> OK, I guess it must be fvwm then. On Mac, Windows and Gtk, all the  
> windows have a title bar with a close button in it. Guess I'll have to  
> add one onto the form.
>

No, that doesn't make sense.  All my windows have, by default, a title
bar with a close button.  There are just some special windows
(selected by their window name) which have the title bar turned off.
This is rather like the Gnome-panel for example.

So I have 'NoTitle' set for windows with the following names:-

    Style "Fvwm*"        NoTitle, Sticky, WindowListSkip
    Style "astime"       NoTitle, NoHandles, Sticky
    Style "Top Panel"    NoTitle, Sticky, StaysOnTop
    Style "Reminders"    NoTitle, NoHandles, Sticky

... but it seems a bit unlikely that Dabo windows would match any of
those names.


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[Uwe Grauer-5]

Chris G wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 07:53:47PM +0200, Uwe Grauer wrote:
>> Maybe you have a misconfigured (broken?) window manager - i don't know.
>> I do not know enough about fvwm.
>>
> I don't think so, I've been using fvwm for *years*, it's much more
> 'mature' than what comes by default with Gnome or KDE.  Nothing else
> has had any problems with it either.
>
> Now it *could* be that I've misconfigured something but it seems
> unlikely to me.
>
> The only thing I can think of is that Dabo's Help window has an odd
> name which happens to be similar to somethig else that I'm handling in
> a special way.
>

Now that there is a OK-button in the About dialog even people running
fvwm can close it. ;-)

Uwe



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[Chris G-6]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 01:38:48PM -0500, Ed Leafe wrote:

> On Oct 5, 2008, at 1:30 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
>
> >> Linux, Fedora 8, fvwm window manager.
> >
> > OK, I guess it must be fvwm then. On Mac, Windows and Gtk, all the
> > windows have a title bar with a close button in it. Guess I'll have to
> > add one onto the form.
>
> OK, I've updated the code to add an 'OK' button that closes the form.  
> And while looking through the code, I discovered that pressing Enter  
> or Space will also dismiss the form.
>

Yup, Enter and Space both work, that's fine by me.

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