From: Richard Heck <rgheck@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:37:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Additional fixes related to disentangling the blinking cursor signal from other signa... 
X-Git-Tag: 1.6.10~6454
X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b4c37e82c1180dfc9556b935d605e817b05f17cd;p=features.git

Additional fixes related to disentangling the blinking cursor signal from other signals. Thanks to Abdel for pointing out the need for this.


git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@22779 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
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diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp
index 5c5b21abdd..0f2c0114db 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.cpp
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ GuiWorkArea::GuiWorkArea(Buffer & buffer, GuiView & lv)
 	general_timer_.setInterval(500);
 	connect(&general_timer_, SIGNAL(timeout()),
 		this, SLOT(handleRegularEvents()));
-	general_timer_.start();
+	startGeneralTimer();
 
 	screen_ = QPixmap(viewport()->width(), viewport()->height());
 	cursor_ = new frontend::CursorWidget();
@@ -333,11 +333,16 @@ void GuiWorkArea::redraw()
 void GuiWorkArea::processKeySym(KeySymbol const & key, KeyModifier mod)
 {
 	// In order to avoid bad surprise in the middle of an operation,
-	// we better stop the blinking cursor.
+	// we better stop the blinking cursor...
 	stopBlinkingCursor();
+	// ...and the general timer.
+	stopGeneralTimer();
 
 	theLyXFunc().setLyXView(lyx_view_);
 	theLyXFunc().processKeySym(key, mod);
+	
+	// the cursor gets restarted in GuiView::restartCursor()
+	startGeneralTimer();
 }
 
 
@@ -364,11 +369,15 @@ void GuiWorkArea::dispatch(FuncRequest const & cmd0, KeyModifier mod)
 	else
 		cmd = cmd0;
 
+	bool const notJustMovingTheMouse = 
+		cmd.action != LFUN_MOUSE_MOTION || cmd.button() != mouse_button::none;
+	
 	// In order to avoid bad surprise in the middle of an operation, we better stop
-	// the blinking cursor.
-	if (!(cmd.action == LFUN_MOUSE_MOTION
-		&& cmd.button() == mouse_button::none))
+	// the blinking cursor and the general timer
+	if (notJustMovingTheMouse) {
 		stopBlinkingCursor();
+		stopGeneralTimer();
+	}
 
 	buffer_view_->mouseEventDispatch(cmd);
 
@@ -379,15 +388,15 @@ void GuiWorkArea::dispatch(FuncRequest const & cmd0, KeyModifier mod)
 	}
 
 	// GUI tweaks except with mouse motion with no button pressed.
-	if (!(cmd.action == LFUN_MOUSE_MOTION
-		&& cmd.button() == mouse_button::none)) {
+	if (notJustMovingTheMouse) {
 		// Slight hack: this is only called currently when we
 		// clicked somewhere, so we force through the display
 		// of the new status here.
 		lyx_view_->clearMessage();
 
-		// Show the cursor immediately after any operation.
+		// Show the cursor immediately after any operation
 		startBlinkingCursor();
+		startGeneralTimer();
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.h b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.h
index ed54cb87a6..d1a65e3f06 100644
--- a/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.h
+++ b/src/frontends/qt4/GuiWorkArea.h
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ public:
 	void stopBlinkingCursor();
 	///
 	void startBlinkingCursor();
+	/// 
+	void startGeneralTimer() { general_timer_.start(); }
+	///
+	void stopGeneralTimer() { general_timer_.stop(); }
 	/// Process Key pressed event.
 	/// This needs to be public because it is accessed externally by GuiView.
 	void processKeySym(KeySymbol const & key, KeyModifier mod);