Bug #127772 for Tcl-pTk: [macOS] aqua: BrowseEntry dropdown appears behind window

Wed Nov 21 02:01:53 2018 CAC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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[macOS] aqua: BrowseEntry dropdown appears behind window

Using aqua Tk 8.6.9.1 on macOS 10.14.1, the dropdown list/popup for BrowseEntry widgets appears behind the window rather than in front of it. (I don't remember ever trying this on Tk 8.6.8 or earlier.) See attached screenshot.

Some workarounds would be to use ComboBox or ttkBrowseEntry instead, although I am not completely aware of how they differ from BrowseEntry. Without having investigated this much, I'm not sure BrowseEntry can be completely replaced by either of those in a Perl/Tk compatible manner. For example, existing code might depend on BrowseEntry's discrete listbox or button widgets. It would be simpler if BrowseEntry wasn't something to separately maintain, though.

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Tue Mar 17 12:10:59 2020 CAC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

There is a documented limitation in the behavior of grab on Tk Aqua where only the grab window can be focused and receive mouse and key events.

A Tcl script that exhibits the limitation (careful when running this on X11):

pack [ttk::button .b -text {Popup overlay}]

toplevel .t -background green

wm overrideredirect .t 1

wm withdraw .t

.b configure -command {

wm deiconify .t

wm geometry .t [wm geometry .]

raise .t

# On Aqua, this raises . and

# doesn't allow interacting with .t

grab -global .

}

Maybe BrowseEntry can be revised to act more like ttk::combobox, which uses slightly different approaches for each platform (see combobox.tcl in Tk).

Tue Mar 17 12:11:00 2020 CAC [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'