Richard Heck wrote:
> I don't know exactly what's going on here, but I think I can solve the
> problem. I also think it's a QT bug, not ours.
>
> At first I thought there must be some kind of event loop. But adding
> some lyxerr's to GuiApplication::notify() showed me that it wasn't:
> You'd get a paint event for the slider, but then that would be the last
> event you'd see. Interrupting LyX doing whatever it was doing showed
> that it was basically stuck in that painting routine, and it always
> seemed to be in qt_x11_get_brush_gc. I think what's happening MIGHT be
> that this returns null if the widget paintEngine isn't active, which
> maybe it isn't if the slider isn't enabled. So, anyway, I figured I'd
> try just enabling the slider, and that seems to do the trick. The TOC
> comes up much more quickly, and I've not yet been able to get the
> freeze. So, as I said, it seems like a QT bug, really.
>
> Leaving the slider enabled is harmless: It doesn't do anything if
> there's nothing in the TOC, anyway. But if we want to prevent people
> from moving it around anyway, perhaps the thing to do would be to
> setFocusPolicy to Qt::NoFocus.
>   
...and then setting it to Qt::StrongFocus on the other branch, of course.

Abdel, do you want to decide exactly how to handle this, assuming the
hack attached to the other message works?

Richard

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